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Healthcare spending in the U.S. is out of control and part of the reason for the approaching train wreck is that decision makers place too much trust in people's ability to think rationally. At least that’s the conclusion of a recent analysis in Health Affairs. Part of the solution, according to the report, rests in a deeper understanding of behavioral economics.
A Google search for "health insurance" brings eHealthInsurance.com as one of the top results -- one reason, eHealth executives say, that state exchanges should follow the federal government in allowing consumers to enroll in subsidized health plans through private web exchanges like eHealthInsurance.
As the GOP-controlled House of Representatives prepares again to vote this week on a repeal of the 2010 health law, some key Republican senators have seized on recent news developments to show their ire.
The federal government has uncovered a string of alleged Medicare fraud attempts totalling $223 million and involving 89 individuals in eight cities.
The federal government has uncovered a string of alleged Medicare fraud attempts totalling $223 million and involving 89 individuals in eight cities.
Financial firms will build investment pieces around companies that develop solutions for transparency, outcomes, prices and care coordination, the macro themes around health reform.
A new report examining the state of the skilled nursing industry finds that there have been steady quality improvements since 2003 but more can be done.
Colorado HealthOP, the state's consumer operated and oriented plan (CO-OP), has signed an agreement with the broker network Warner Pacific to market its health plans, in the first relationship between agents and state health cooperatives.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is looking to more than a dozen dual eligible demonstrations to fulfill the quality improvement and cost saving aims of the Affordable Care Act, although in the five demonstrations approved so far, the exact sources of projected savings remain largely unclear, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
That sigh of relief you heard Monday was from hospital administrators in nearly two dozen states, including Florida and Texas.