Healthcare Finance Staff
Amid the public debate about the affordability of healthcare and insurance, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) is using new media tools like infographics to explain regulatory and market issues, hoping to reach news savvy consumers inside and outside the Washington Beltway.
States must provide a blueprint of their plans to the Health and Human Services Department by the end of the day Dec. 14 for how they will create their state-based health insurance exchanges.
California appeals court OKs Medi-Cal cuts; Medicaid pay raise for doctors met with dissatisfaction in Georgia; and two insurers sue Washington state over Medicaid allocation in this week's Medicaid Digest.
The Denver-based health IT company HealthTrio has filed a software patent infringement lawsuit against Aeta and two of its technology subsidiaries.
Eleven Republican governors sent a letter to President Barack Obama Thursday requesting a meeting to discuss the details and costs associated with Medicaid expansion as outlined in the Affordable Care Act.
Just as the final tally was coming in for state decisions on health insurance exchanges, the Department of Health and Human Services sent an HIX FAQ to all 50 governors, trying to explain aspects of exchanges that've puzzled some state lawmakers and insurance regulators for months.
Family premium costs for employer-sponsored health insurance have risen 62 percent between 2003 and 2011, according to an analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.
In what's been billed as one of the first commercial accountable care programs in Florida, Naples, Fla.-based NCH Healthcare System will team up with the state's Blue Cross and Blue Shield Company to participate in the Florida Blue Accountable Care Program.
HealthEdge, which develops software for payers, has acquired Click4Care, a firm that specializes in care management technology for health insurers.
Use of prepayment edits saved Medicare at least $1.76 billion in fiscal year 2010, but a new study by the Government Accountability Office found that savings could have been greater had the edits been more widely used.