Healthcare Finance Staff
Most insurance plans established under the Affordable Care Act are losing money and may have difficulty repaying millions in loans, according to an audit report released by the Office of Inspector General.
Florida will audit 31 hospitals which failed to meet a deadline to certifying that their contracts with Medicaid managed-care plans comply with state law, according to Gov. Rick Scott's office.
More than 2,100 healthcare providers have passed through the review stage and will begin taking on financial risk in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative, the federal agency announced on Thursday.
One of the health law's key protections was to cap how much consumers can be required to pay out of pocket for medical care each year. Now some employers say the administration is unfairly changing the rules that determine how those limits are applied, and they're worried it will cost them more.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said it will delay releasing data on its risk corridor ratios for insurers participating in health insurance exchanges after it found several discrepancies in the data.
The program saved $580 million in nine markets in the first round of bidding, which ended in 2013, and an additional $2 billion in the second round, which ended in July 2014.
Internal controls are lacking when it come to setting an individual's eligibility for tax credits and cost sharing reductions for health plans bought through Healthcare.gov, according to a new report by the Office of the Inspector General.
Two major deals that would result in top commercial insurance companies merging into their competitors has roiled the leadership of the American Hospital Association.
The last and perhaps most controversial piece of health reform's universal coverage has many miles to go in terms of financial sustainability. But there are signs of progress.
Healthtrust will track supply chain costs and the degree to which Tenet shares supply chain services across the healthcare provider's network of 81 acute care and 19 surgical hospitals.