Healthcare Finance Staff
Healthcare, business leaders urge Congress to keep hands off Medicare Part D in fiscal cliff negoti…
A diverse group of more than 350 healthcare, patient, veterans and business organizations on Tuesday urged Congressional leaders to reject any proposal to turn the Medicare Part D plan into one that resembles the rebates structure of Medicaid drug programs.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is investigating Minnesota's Medicaid managed care payment rates to HMOs between 2008 and 2009.
Acting CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and other CMS officials announced on Monday that states which embark on a partial expansion of their Medicaid systems would not qualify for the full 100 percent funding under the Affordable Care Act's Medcaid expansion provision.
In this week's HIX Digest: Vetoes and defaults, Republicans question United tech acquisition, state of EHBs and the open source option.
Oregon was an early health insurance exchange innovator, receiving federal funding to design the website and IT system before the exchange -- now called Cover Oregon -- was even established by the legislature.
Saying the federal government hasn't done enough to provide concrete parameters for establishing health insurance exchange, Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday vetoed state legislation that would have created a state-run HIX in New Jersey.
Only a fraction of Californians with consumer-directed health plans knew their policies included free or low-cost preventive visits and tests, according to a survey by Kaiser Permanente researchers.
The survey also found many consumer-directed plan holders largely misinterpreted certain arrangements of their deductibles.
New premium taxes assessed on health plans in 2014 could lead to average annual premium increases of about $200 a person and could cause two to three percent increases in premium costs across the country, according to a report by the consulting firm Oliver Wyman.
Americans can shop online for pizza, hotel reservations and lots of other goods and services, so why not for medical procedures as well?
In this week's HIX Digest: Tennessee Tea Party groups rally against a state-run HIX, the OPM proposes multi-state plan rules, New York aims for integrated eligibility systems and advocates wait for tobacco cessation coverage details.