Healthcare Finance Staff
Aetna CEO Mark T. Bertolini believes that when times are tough, people want to hear the truth. In his Monday morning opening keynote here at HIMSS14, Bertolini was prepared to speak the unvarnished truth.
The recent delay of the employer mandate for medium-sized businesses will hurt not-for-profit hospitals because it postpones increased revenues from expanded coverage of previously uninsured patients, and the subsequent reduction in bad debt and charity care it would bring, a Moody's report said.
After watching the failures and successes of other states and HealthCare.gov, Idaho is making its own foray into running an insurance exchange, tapping a young Silicon Valley tech firm and an established Beltway contractor.
While keeping their options open, Medicare regulators are proposing to reduce Medicare Advantage rates by 3.5 percent, along with some other changes that could make the decline even steeper.
Massachusetts' new healthcare transparency agency is arguing that Partners HealthCare's acquisition of a suburban hospital is likely to raise employer and payer costs, setting the stage for state or federal authorities to block the deal.
The executive director at Nevada's health insurance exchange is stepping down amid poor enrollment and website glitches, with the board now mulling a switch to the federal marketplace.
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst) has pledged to invest more than $1.3 million in four initiatives designed to expand the use of telemedicine to treat patients with behavioral healthcare needs in underserved urban and rural areas of Maryland and Washington, D.C.
3M Health Information Systems will acquire Treo Solutions, which develops healthcare data analytics and business intelligence technology, for an undisclosed sum.
After two other states got a federal OK for the Medicaid "private option," Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett is asking to use a similar version of the policy, with more cost-sharing, plus requirements that have never been approved anywhere before.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has expanded its value-based hospital reimbursement model with five more health systems in the state, representing 24 hospitals, for a total of seven systems.