Healthcare Finance Staff
About 15 state attorneys general have joined the U.S. Department of Justice probe into two large insurance mergers that would reduce the number of big players from five to three, according to Reuters.
Acting Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Andy Slavitt on Tuesday shocked many in healthcare when he laid out an aggressive timeline to replace the meaningful use program, a electronic health records mandate and incentive program that healthcare providers put millions into.
Louisiana has adopted Medicaid expansion, making it the 32nd state, including the District of Columbia, to take on the Affordable Care Act initiative.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday announced the 21 health systems that are participating in the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model, some having defected from the controversial Pioneer ACO program.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was surprisingly not among the list of 21 health systems joining the Next Generation Accountable Care Organization model released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday.
For decades, if someone on Medicaid wanted to get treatment for drug or alcohol addiction, they almost always had to rely solely on money from state and local sources. Now the federal government is considering chipping in, too. The agency that governs Medicaid is proposing to cover 15 days of inpatient rehab per month for anyone enrolled in a Medicaid managed care plan, but critics say 15 days isn't long enough.
Investors are gathering in San Francisco this week for the annual J.P. Morgan healthcare conference, the sector's biggest financial event and one where many biotech deals are expected to be announced.
Standard & Poor's has warned Anthem, Cigna and Aetna that the substantial debt needed to finance the proposed mergers between them may cause their credit ratings to fall.
Aetna will leave America's Health Insurance Plans, becoming the second major insurer to leave the industry's largest trade group, according to a statement from the insurer.
From Dec. 27 to Jan. 2, 83,297 consumers made plan selections, according to CMS.