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The Department of Health and Human Services is getting ready to enforce the Affordable Care Act's attempts to reduce administrative costs, with proposed regulations of health plans.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending January 03, 2014.
Even as total Medicare Part D spending grows, generic competition and copay variation have yielded a sustainable rate of per capita cost growth, according to federal Medicare researchers.
Hospital administrators are finding that inexpensive and unobtrusive radio frequency identification tags are saving thousands of dollars while increasing quality of care and patient satisfaction.
How do the credit ratings agencies determine hospitals' ratings? And what are the differences between hospitals receiving high ratings and those receiving low? Healthcare Finance News talked to some ratings experts to get the inside scoop.
Risk management programs instituted by the Affordable Care Act may make older, higher-cost members more profitable for insurers than expected.
As new federal market stabilization programs start, many regulators and insurers are preparing for a new model of risk management: "when adverse selection isn't."
A critical best practice for building an exchange that can operate as expected on day one was learning to say "no," according to the experience of the executives leading the Connecticut and District of Columbia health insurance marketplaces.
The market will continue to grow, but slowly, while international demand looks promising.
With the closing of 2013 and arrival of 2014, it is a time to look ahead at a few of the industry trends we can expect in the upcoming 12 months.