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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 04:09 pm | March 29, 2013
After news broke of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tentatively approving Arkansas' idea for expanding Medicaid via premium support for private health plans in an insurance exchange, some were wondering if HHS even had the legal authority to do it.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 01:15 pm | March 29, 2013
State health insurance exchanges are putting together financing and revenue sources, with many likely relying on insurer fees, as long-term state or federal support remains uncertain.
By Mary Mosquera | 12:12 pm | March 29, 2013
The American Society of Clinical Oncology has unveiled a prototype of an online database tool that has the potential to achieve higher quality and higher value cancer care and better outcomes for patients.
By Chris Anderson | 12:04 pm | March 29, 2013
Highmark Inc. has unveiled a new group health plan that provides incentives for members to use providers that exhibit higher quality outcomes, fewer complications and reduced readmissions.
By Eric Wicklund | 11:22 am | March 29, 2013
Assurance Wireless, a federal lifeline assistance program for wireless phone service, is joining forces with Gold Mobile to offer free two-way messaging services between Medicaid and low-income patients and their healthcare providers, insurance carriers and HMOs.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:22 am | March 29, 2013
It's often been said that almost everyone has a smartphone. Unfortunately, not everyone has the financial resources to use it.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 08:06 am | March 29, 2013
Hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries in almost 100 counties across the United States and its territories will be losing coverage for telehealth services because they no longer live in federally designated rural areas.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 04:24 pm | March 28, 2013
California's three-year demonstration program for Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibles has been approved by the federal government.
By Mary Mosquera | 03:11 pm | March 28, 2013
American Family Care (AFC) plans to buy Doctors Express, the largest franchisor of urgent care centers in the U.S., in an acquisition that will make AFC the second largest privately held urgent care operator in the country.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 12:10 pm | March 28, 2013
As the number of mobile health apps continue to grow, along with public demand for them, one company has found a way to open the pipelines of innovation by eliminating the need for multiple application programming interfaces (APIs).