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Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending September 27, 2013.
Some healthcare organizations are beginning to disclose their prices in a bid towards transparency, but most still have not. However, that may change with continued cost pressures in an era of reform. And a new line of business may help push them.
As more price transparency companies (and the states) put healthcare pricing out in the public domain, providers and payers who have been reluctant to reveal their prices will be disrupted - maybe even so much that they’ll be forced to lower prices.
With the turbulence of healthcare reform has come an increase in the prevalence of severance agreements in contracts between healthcare organizations and CEOs found the 2013 Health Care CEO Severance Survey.
Health plans will face a new competitive environment when health insurance exchanges open for business Oct.1, along with a new focus on efforts to attract and retain consumers.
Information technology expenditures in medical practices have risen since 2008, spurred by incentives from the federal government.
Recent research indicates that primary care physicians who participated in a quality-reporting incentive program saw patients make "greater improvements" in cardiovascular disease preventive care than the patients of fee-for-service providers.
Healthcare reform and improving employee retention rates are top concerns of healthcare executives and human resources professionals.
President Obama and health leaders trying to convince Americans to enroll in health insurance are relying on a message of affordability: After the federal government's tax credits apply, Obama said Tuesday that individuals can get health insurance "for less than their cell phone bill."
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is taking its outreach about open enrollment directly to where the people are at sporting, entertainment and community events in and outside the Beltway.