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By Susan Morse | 12:10 pm | May 19, 2015
Between 2012 and 2014, 39 people in Virginia Mason Medical Center were sickened by highly-resistant strains of E.coli bacteria, and 11 of those patients died
By Susan Morse | 11:59 am | May 19, 2015
Stanford Health Care-ValleyCare in the Bay Area of California.
By Anthony Brino | 11:33 am | May 19, 2015
Seventy-three health systems and providers sold their own health plans on the ACA exchanges this year.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:15 am | May 19, 2015
Molina Healthcare is acquiring a financially beleaguered Medicaid plan from a nonprofit insurer trying to preserve another managed care business.
By Anthony Brino | 10:34 am | May 19, 2015
Given the shift of healthcare resources to primary and preventive care, there are real, long-standing problems with the health insurance model that could be solved uniquely when the payer is owned by the provider business getting paid.
By Susan Morse | 09:26 am | May 19, 2015
The Utah health systems said it will take full ownership of Amerinet, which serves 83,000 members.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 05:40 pm | May 18, 2015
Four months until the ICD-10 deadline, and the American Medical Association is peddling the logic of waiting for the next iteration of the disease coding system, or at least delaying a bit more.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 03:14 pm | May 18, 2015
Health insurers in one large West Coast state now have to disclose claims data that for decades was proprietary, in a reluctant but heralded move towards transparency.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:55 pm | May 18, 2015
Health insurers need to change their silver-tier health plans to use more modest and predictable cost-sharing, instead of four-figure deductibles, according to patient advocates.
By Susan Morse | 12:30 pm | May 18, 2015
Assistant Secretary Jan Frye claims VA improperly spent at least $5 billion a year on medical equipment, sparking inquiry.