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Health insurers in Oregon, one of the nation's most competitive markets, have proposed premium rates for 2014, as most prepare for what may be even more competition in the state insurance exchange.
Hospitals with the highest rates of cardiac arrests tend to have the poorest survival rates for those cases, while hospitals that do the best job of preventing cardiac arrest among their patients tend to be better at saving patients with cardiac arrest, according to new research published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finalized medical loss ratio regulations for Medicare Advantage and Medicare prescription drug insurers, allowing some EHR and ICD-10 set-up costs to be counted as quality improvement and also a range of deductible community benefit expenditures.
A new index that gauges the financial and operational health of physician practices forecasts a downward trend in profitability for the year ahead.
Henry Ford Health System and Beaumont Health System announced Tuesday that after six months of due diligence the two organizations are not going forward with their merger that would have created a $6.4 billion organization.
Healthcare providers will be paid less for their for services under the federal Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP) starting next month to stretch its funding because it is fast running out of money.
As an estimated 14 million additional Americans become eligible for health insurance next year under the Affordable Care Act, recent survey data reveals that the number of doctors entering the healthcare field remains flat, and existing physicians are reducing the number of patients they are willing to service. Solutions to the shortage are urgently needed experts say.
A study containing mixed results of the effects of increased Medicaid enrollment in Oregon offers some caution about expectations for dramatic improvements in the health of millions of individuals from just expanding coverage across the nation in 2014, according to one of the authors of a recent study.
Medicaid coverage alone is no guarantee of improved health outcomes, but researchers found that expanding Medicaid in Oregon reduced depression and eliminated out-of-pocket costs for its low-income enrollees.
Federal employees with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association's health plan will soon have access to personalized health management tools like risk assessments, online health coaching and a 24/7 nurse advice line.