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Venture capital in the mHealth sector reached $907.7 million last year, said a report released Tuesday by Mobile Health Market News.
As Aetna finalizes the acquisition of the managed care insurer Coventry, it is selling one of its own Medicaid businesses, Missouri Care, to WellCare Health Plans, for an undisclosed sum.
Last week the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it will not challenge a proposal by the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA) to offer a gainsharing program to its member hospitals in the state.
Becoming a behavioral health home is a real opportunity but comes with some challenges. A webinar offered by SAMHSA/HRSA outlined some operational considerations for behavioral health agencies thinking about making the transformation.
If hospitals launching health plans strikes some as a sign of traditional health insurance's coming extinction, the business model so many American hospitals were built upon -- fee-for-service -- is declining too. Integrated healthcare and shared savings contracts between payers and providers are going to become the norm.
The HIPAA Privacy and Security Omnibus final rule should bring some long-awaited clarification and certainty to marketing, fundraising and other aspects of safeguarding and using health information.
Eleven states have received $1.5 billion more in grants from the Health and Human Services Department to support their creation of health insurance exchanges, which must be ready in October for enrollment season.
As healthcare providers brace themselves for big changes to reimbursement models, many are taking a conservative approach to their capital budgets. As a result, capital spending in 2013 will likely be flat or slightly down compared to 2012, predict experts at several healthcare group purchasing organizations.
Every once in a while, someone writes an article or column blaming doctors for rising healthcare costs. Timothy Norbeck, a 46-year veteran of championing physicians, has seen such finger pointing many times, but a recent article teed him off enough to write a white paper examining the drivers of healthcare costs.
The most eagerly awaited -- if not anxiety-laden -- set of regulations in the healthcare spectrum arrived late Thursday: HHS issued modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Notification Rules.