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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 02:58 pm | September 18, 2014
From incentivizing wellness to protecting against catastrophic loss, what's old is new again in health insurance advertising.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:24 pm | September 18, 2014
Struggling Medicare Advantage and Part D drug plans are being given a last minute reprieve, although they will need to show more improvement if they want to stay alive longer than a year.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 02:50 pm | September 17, 2014
Call it managed care 2.0. The latest idea in affordable networks is bringing together a large insurer and disparate providers to create a simplified, integrated care system.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:12 pm | September 17, 2014
What happens when an insurer with the bulk of a state's public exchange membership pulls out?
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:59 am | September 16, 2014
Before the next open enrollment begins, verification issues are lingering for several hundred thousand consumers on existing exchange plans, leaving insurers and providers facing a range of potential problems.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:35 am | September 16, 2014
Narrow networks sparked consumer angst and new government oversight after the Affordable Care Act's first open enrollment period. But now, there's evidence that limited networks can be a win-win, albeit with one primary caveat.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:55 pm | September 15, 2014
In the latest development of private health insurance exchanges, one large Blue Cross company is betting on the single-carrier model as a way to keep group business, or hopefully expand it.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:48 am | September 15, 2014
A joint investment in a health IT company by two Blue Cross companies and a private equity firm is reaping a few billion amid healthcare's tech boom.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:20 am | September 15, 2014
The current hospital-based system of graduate medical education does not meet the needs of modern healthcare delivery or the training of the future physician workforce, according to a new reform proposal by the American Academy of Family Physicians.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 10:41 am | September 15, 2014
Ahead of a corporate branding change and a new open enrollment period, WellPoint is charging ahead with accountable care and population health strategies.