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Bucking expectations, the nation's employment rose by 204,000 in October. The healthcare industry continued to add jobs, but at a lower rate than has been the average through 2013.
Amid the uproar over President Obama's now untenable "If you like your insurance you can keep it" pledge, California's Insurance Department has obtained a temporary delay for some Blue individual policies on track to sunset in 2014.
Whether or not accountable care organizations should take on more risk after just one year of experience or after three years in the Medicare Shared Savings Program was the issue the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission addressed at its monthly meeting Thursday.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending November 8, 2013.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia is recruiting members with diabetes for a national study testing the viability of an online self-management program, as the Blues and other insurers look for viable approaches to the expensive problem of diabetes.
"Step number one, two, three, four, five and six is really getting the website fixed," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told both concerned and critical members of Senate Finance Committee, the birthplace of the Affordable Care Act, as Healthcare.gov's problems persisted five weeks after its go-live date.
A survey examining how U.S. hospitals are addressing CMS 30-day readmission penalties found that most facilities agree on what core strategies work the best for reducing preventable readmissions. Post-acute care coordination is near the top of the list.
Tenet Healthcare stock plunged Tuesday after the Dallas-based company lowered its fourth-quarter outlook and reported lower than estimated third-quarter earnings.
Humana's third-quarter net income fell almost 14 percent, but the company's leaders are maintaining this year's earnings guidance and see revenue increasing in 2014.
Colorado's experiment with accountable care in Medicaid has led to a second year of savings, and other states are taking note.