Healthcare Finance Staff
Narrow insurance networks are gaining traction across the United States, as insurers have limited options for offering plans at different price points, according to a report by the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Experts say problems seen in September in testing ICD-10 codes could turn into disasters when the new diagnostic code set goes live on October 1.
Though critical access hospitals will continue to earn less, Fitch Ratings this week said it does not expect the financial struggles to affect these hospitals' credit ratings due to their near 100 percent reimbursement from Medicare and political support that will stave off any attempt to cut payments.
Pennsylvania families that faced penalties for Children's Health Insurance Program coverage that did not meet minimum requirements set by the Affordable Care Act are in the clear after Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday said the state expanded its CHIP program.
The center, which will share space with the Allina Health-operated Minnesota Perinatal Physicians Clinic, was partly financed by a $1 million donation from Mike Ciresi, a Minnesota attorney and former chair of the Children's Foundation, and his wife Ann.
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker has released details of a healthcare model to replace Obamacare that would give tax credits to seniors to buy their own insurance.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois has developed accountable care organizations with three more provider-partners, bringing the total number of ACOs under the insurer to five, the insurer announced this month.
A doctor at a Brooklyn, New York, clinic was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for his role in a $13 million healthcare fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Remember the so-called death panels? When Congress debated the Affordable Care Act in 2009, the legislation originally included a provision that would have allowed Medicare to reimburse doctors when they meet with patients to talk about end-of-life care.
A new report shows $342 billion in taxpayer money is wasted each year in improper healthcare payments due to challenges in verifying benefit eligibility.