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Author Rosemary Gibson talks about her book, "Medicare Meltdown," which looks at the business of Medicare.
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have the potential to slow health spending growth and improve quality of care by providers, payers and other healthcare organizations operating together, but regulating them poses challenges related to competition, according to research in the August issue of Health Affairs.
Accountable care organizations have the potential to slow health spending growth and improve quality of care but regulating them poses challenges related to competition.
Last week Community Health Systems announced it is acquiring Health Management Associates for approximately $7.6 billion.
Doctors acknowledge they have a role in helping to contain healthcare costs but they lack enthusiasm for cost containment achieved through changes in payment models.
Doctors acknowledge they have a role in helping to contain healthcare costs but they lack enthusiasm for cost containment achieved through changes in payment models.
True to the frenetic pace of most Affordable Care Act implementation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is on a tight, occasionally moving deadline for security development and testing of the federal data hub, according to a review by the Office of the Inspector General.
The Connecticut Insurance Department approved four insurers to sell individual and small group health plans in the state exchange, Access Health CT, and in the non-exchange market -- as two other insurers withdrew bids.
As the population ages, the need for people to provide long-term care services is sharply increasing, even as the affordability and availability of LTC insurance is diminishing. The state of Connecticut is taking action.
Insurers are shaping their business strategies to grow and to operate smarter ahead of the Jan. 1 go-live date for many provisions of the Affordable Care Act.