Healthcare Finance Staff
Despite a booming state economy, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Dakota is booking huge losses, with more potentially to come from a botched contract, leaving the board looking for fresh leadership to bring a turnaround.
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is hoping a cost-analysis system from their Italian transplant hospital will become the future of cost measurement here in the United States.
Amid the many mergers and acquisitions sweeping through healthcare, some raising the ire of anti-trust regulators, four health systems in greater Philadelphia are taking a different tack in a bid to integrate care and lure new insurance contracts.
With more employers adopting high deductible plans for their workers, the market is opening up for supplemental benefits in some of healthcare's most expensive areas.
Although they're not expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, Texas, Florida and other states are expanding managed care, bringing insurers opportunities as well as challenges, including competition from provider-based health plans.
More than 8 million Americans selected health plans in public exchanges during the Affordable Care Act's first enrollment period. But how many of them were previously uninsured? And does it matter?
Mothballing, busted budgets and a lack of credibility are swirling in the minds of ICD-10 managers, and it's enough to make some insurers question the logic of future investments.
Cigna is hoping to sustain positive first quarter results for the rest of the year, in part relying on expanding collaborative care initiatives, as new exchange members turn out to be surprisingly high utilizers.
New York's attorney general has fired what he hopes will be a warning shot at the industry of loan brokers and lenders targeting consumers who want to pay for elective procedures.
After the first open enrollment period, WellPoint executives are confident that public exchanges will be profitable and that they won't be bailing anybody out. Other areas, they're not so sure about, despite better than expected first quarter results.