Jeff Rowe

Vulnerability could give cybercriminals way to potentially force the pump to deliver unauthorized insulin injections.

Critics of a pilot program designed to lower the cost of medical equipment purchased by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently received support for their concerns in a new report released by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). But while the models used by researchers confirmed earlier outside assessments of the program, the director of the program says the researchers got it wrong.

In central Pennsylvania, Capital BlueCross and PinnacleHealth recently announced an accountable care arrangement (ACA), that officials with both organizations say is similar in design to the Medicare-based accountable care organizations (ACOs) being promoted by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Changes in the implementation of medical therapy management create improvement in care and controlling costs explained Rick Solano during a presentation Wednesday at the AHIP Institute. He shared those session insights in an interview with Healthcare Payer News/Healthcare Finance News contributing writer Jeff Rowe.

If the economy picks up in 2012, hospitals may find themselves scrambling to hang onto key employees.

Wanna bet you can lose weight? New York City-based HealthyWage is hoping you’ll try.

Practice Greenhealth, a nonprofit organization working to help healthcare organizations improve their environmental practices, has released the Standardized Environmental Questions for Medical Products. The questions are designed to help hospitals identify, request and procure environmentally preferable medical products.

A significant percentage of the nation’s pediatricians are carrying necessary vaccines at their own expense, Athenahealth, Inc. recently announced. The announcement accompanied the launch of the company’s new VaccineViewSM, a program designed to shed light on the impact of vaccine reimbursement costs on U.S. pediatric practices.