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A recent study by a Harvard professor and her European colleagues has elicited a handful of insights about health exchanges similar to the ones that will be implemented in 2014 in the United States.
The Medicare Trustees have projected in their annual report that the program's hospital insurance trust fund will remain solvent until 2026, two years later than predicted last year, while Social Security's solvency is estimated to last through 2033.
To keep bottom lines healthy, organizations are turning to a process called lean revenue cycle management. John Gallagher, account manager of Simpler Consulting, helps organizations utilize this efficient form of management, and shares with Healthcare Finance News tips for maximizing the process.
The GAO has concluded that the states across the country setting up health insurance exchanges will be ready for enrollment by the Oct. 1, 2013 deadline. Coverage is set to begin Jan. 1, 2014.
It took six months and a letter to the governor with a picture of their newborn for two Philadelphia graduate students to successfully enroll their son in CHIP -- and even then their premiums were miscalculated, based on a system reporting error that tripled their actual income.
As the country gets ready for the roll out of the major components of the Affordable Care Act, stakeholders can look to Massachusetts, where healthcare reform was enacted seven years ago. The second installment of PwC Health Research Institute's The Massachusetts Experience provides analysis on the effects of rapid insurance coverage expansion on health payers and providers in the state.
Eye care company Bausch + Lomb is being purchased by one of Canada's largest pharmaceutical companies, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, for $8.7 billion the two companies announced on Monday.
Panelists at the Wireless-Life Sciences Alliance's Convergence Summit say there is no ideal business plan for entrepreneurs wanting to get into the digital health space, but what is required is patience and knowing what consumers need.
The bidding war to purchase Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. ended last week when its current owner, Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth (SCL) Health System in Denver, announced it plans to sell the hospital to another Catholic chain, Providence Health & Services, located in southern California.
The Nebraska state auditor has found what he calls "gross mismanagement" in the state's Medicaid Health Insurance Premium Payment Program (HIPP), with the state Department of Health and Human Services "flagrantly disregard(ing) its own regulations."