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The confusion caused by patient billing documents impacts providers' ability to collect on patient bills, so some providers are trying to simplify billing for patients in an effort to increase their debt recovery.
The nation's 1,200 nonprofit community health centers receive strong federal support to treat millions of uninsured residents, but still face financial challenges. Some are responding with an unusual strategy -- starting for-profit insurance plans.
Iowa and Nebraska's ACA-supported nonprofit, CoOportunity Health, has sold a lot more health plans in the two states than expected, through a mix of old and new strategies.
When discussing solutions to the problem of primary care shortages, nurse practitioners and physician assistants are top of mind. A law that took effect the first of the year in California is putting the spotlight on another option: pharmacists.
Aetna Better Health of Illinois, one of the insurer's Medicaid plans, will test the effect of providing smartphones to home care aides who assist Illinois residents under the state's Integrated Care Program.
With the cost of copayments for cancer pharmaceuticals varying widely, some patients end up skipping doses or stopping some treatments altogether, according to a new study.
Ten years ago, executives at MaineGeneral Health, a rural healthcare system consisting of several acute care hospitals, physician practices, outpatient facilities and homecare services in central Maine, knew they had a decision to make regarding two of their facilities: they could upgrade their buildings or start from scratch.
National health spending in 2012 increased at a 3.7 percent rate to $2.8 trillion, the fourth consecutive year of slow growth, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said in an analysis.
The nation's 1,200 nonprofit community health centers receive strong federal support to treat millions of uninsured residents, but still face financial challenges. Some are responding with an unusual strategy -- starting for-profit insurance plans.
National health spending in 2012 increased at a 3.7 percent rate to $2.8 trillion, the fourth consecutive year of slow growth, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said in an analysis.