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By Stephanie Bouchard | 09:40 am | June 11, 2013
A TransUnion report released today finds that average patient out-of-pocket costs for healthcare have grown almost by 22 percent in a year.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 03:12 pm | June 10, 2013
The Washington D.C. Council has temporarily approved a plan by the D.C. Health Benefits Exchange Authority requiring that all small group health plans be sold exclusively in the exchange starting in 2015.
By Chris Anderson | 12:03 pm | June 10, 2013
A report issued June 6 by the Kaiser Family Foundation contends that the medical loss requirement (MLR) of the Affordable Care Act saved health insurance consumers $2.1 billion in 2012.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:49 am | June 10, 2013
The Center for Connected Health and the Center for Technology and Aging have launched a new tool to gauge the return on investment for remote patient monitoring technologies for patients with heart disease.
By Mary Mosquera | 11:03 am | June 10, 2013
More employers are considering adopting strategies that will help them be more efficient in the way they pay for healthcare services to slow rising costs, according to new survey data from human resources consulting firm Aon Hewitt.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:03 am | June 10, 2013
More employers are considering adopting strategies that will help them be more efficient in the way they pay for healthcare services to slow rising costs, according to new survey data from human resources consulting firm Aon Hewitt.
By Rodney J. Moore | 10:40 am | June 10, 2013
According to a recently commissioned study by American International Group (AIG), an international insurance company, significant barriers to patient safety still exist in healthcare.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:50 pm | June 07, 2013
The public health insurance exchange experience, for the executives, policy makers, IT workers and regulators managing them, has largely been of the designing and building a ship at the same time -- and months before it's set to cross an ocean.
By Chris Anderson | 12:03 pm | June 07, 2013
Growing enrollment in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) will be a major driver of the move toward healthcare price transparency and that move is expected to boost revenue for companies supporting that shift to $1.9 billion by 2016.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:56 am | June 07, 2013
One of the most vexing issues in the Affordable Care Act's implementation is making the individual mandate work with a robust market -- and a large part of that means getting so-called "young invincibles" to buy insurance.