Healthcare Finance Staff
With the group-based market continuing its decline, payers are turning their attention to the growing individual plan market.
In order to capture that business and engage consumers, payers need to build a direct-to-consumer online capability, which is cost-efficient and can be implemented fairly quickly, said Nancy Sansom, spokeswoman for Benefitfocus.
Historically, payers aggregated data for actuarial purposes or for their sponsoring employer groups' use. Today, data is in greater demand across the industry.
The demand for sharing data with providers and members is creating a big shift in data warehousing, said Dane Iverson, vice president of information management for WellPoint.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oklahoma (BCBSOK) is launching its patient-centered medical home (PCMH) in early 2010.
With Oklahoma's growing primary care physician shortage and its bottom five national ranking of their ratio per capita, the payer is looking for ways to impact quality of care while expanding its provider footprint.
Independence Blue Cross' healthcare information technology capabilities helped the company land a new health benefits contract with Lincoln Financial Group, IBC executives announced Thursday.
Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform will hold a media conference call today to discuss cost-containment and delivery system reform measures in health insurance reform legislation being considered in Congress.
Physicians in Maine are piloting electronic visits with their patients as part of a program developed between Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems (EMHS) and Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Maine.
Genetic testing and electronic medical records are top of the ECRI Institute's 2010 technology watch list for health plans.
This video from the South Carolina Hospital Association's YouTube channel shows how Spartanburg, S.C. was selected to receive assistance for their work in supporting the uninsured.
Despite the economy and subsequent fall in market prices, the cost of long-term care has gone up, according to the 2009 MetLife Market Survey of Nursing Home, Assisted Living, Adult Day Services and Home Care Costs.
Georgia Hospital Health Services, a subsidiary of the Georgia Hospital Association, has selected a Web-based benchmarking tool to help its member hospitals analyze how effectively they use space in key revenue generating areas.