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S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched a new indicator that measures claims data from 33 health insurance companies and other organizations to calculate the growth in commercial healthcare costs.

S&P Dow Jones Indices has launched a new indicator that measures claims data from 33 leading health insurance companies and other organizations to calculate the growth in commercial healthcare costs.

Keeping a medical practice going these days has become a complex and pricey endeavor. Near the top of the list of increasing costs: information technology.

The Medical Group Management Association 2013 annual conference will offer a granular focus on the policy and technology issues that matter to physician practices, said Robert Tennant, MGMA's senior policy advisor.

While some large insurers were reluctant to start selling lots of individual policies through the federal insurance marketplace, a number of Blues plans dove right in.

Among the themes at the Medical Group Management Association's annual conference in San Diego next week is the impact of personality -- from using personality for branding to understanding why people do what they do.

WellPoint Inc. has earned the status of Common Security Framework Certified from HITRUST, the information security and risk management organization, making it the largest health benefits company to achieve the certification for 2013.

Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, vital sexual health services for men and women are now covered by insurance plans at no extra cost. The law also ends annual and lifetime dollar limits on such care.

Firearm assaults cost U.S. hospitals almost $630 million in 2010 and alot of that falls on public payers, according to recent research by the Urban Institute.

Firearm assaults cost U.S. hospitals almost $630 million in 2010, according to recent research by the Urban Institute. The cost of an inpatient stay for a firearm assault injury was nearly $14,000 more than average.