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Of the 24 federally-supported cooperative insurers, one is off to a somewhat disruptive start in the Blue Cross-dominated insurance markets of Iowa and Nebraska.
A new Medicare prospective payment system for federally qualified health centers offers improved reimbursement rates.
Their rates may be somewhat low, but Blues plans tend to pay on time and can be trusted, a survey of health system executives found. Not so for other large insurers.
Amid strong lobbying by business groups, support is growing to end the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate, a change that would see millions more Americans buying their health insurance through exchanges.
Although accountable care organizations are still in nascent stages in many areas of the country, a few large provider groups are ahead of the curve, getting into the nuts and bolts of how these alliances should exist, operate and perform, and what they're finding is that there may not be one "right" way to do it.
Increased admissions drove revenue gains for Tenet Healthcare Corporation and Community Health Systems in the first quarter of 2014 compared to 2013. Both for-profit hospital firms appear confident midway through Q2.
Despite HHS Secretary nominee Sylvia Mathews Burwell getting asked some hard-line questions from lawmakers at a Senate hearing, she did receive overwhelming bipartisan support.
If the contract between Highmark and UPMC expires in six months, western Pennsylvania may become a case study for what some think is the future of American healthcare -- consolidated integrated delivery networks.
The latest data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis estimate that spending for healthcare services jumped by about $50 billion in the first quarter of 2014 compared to fourth quarter of 2013. But don't listen to those who say we are on track for a 10 percent rise in health spending over the full year.
When examining the cost of product procurement, delivery and distribution within a health network, executives may only be considering about half of their total supply chain spend.