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Allscripts announced Thursday that its Q3 bookings were down 39 percent. In the wake of its poor performance, CEO Glen Tullman confirmed that the firm is considering "strategic alternatives" for a possible sale of the company.
The Everett Clinic and member-owned healthcare co-op Group Health Cooperative announced this week they would strengthen their existing relationship through an alliance that will create an accountable care organization to serve seniors in Group Health's Medicare Advantage plan.
Now that the election is over and the Affordable Care Act has been made permanent by the Supreme Court's decision, governors who have been sitting on healthcare decisions have "a lot of pent up energy" for moving forward, said former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist at a post-election healthcare meeting held in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
A new market survey by MetLife finds that in 2012, national average long-term care rates increased from last year. Average long-term care costs rose in nearly all categories, except for home health aides and adult day services.
With Medicare enrollment and spending set to grow in the coming decades, the program needs to better spread risk and incentivize value and also needs a better statutory definition of cost-benefit considerations, researchers argue in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Short-term, contract nurses could be the key to alleviating the projected nationwide nursing shortage, according to a study published in the November issue of Health Affairs. Despite the promising study results, not all industry experts agree that contract nurses are the answer.
With Medicare enrollment and spending set to grow in the coming decades, the program needs to better spread risk and incentivize value and also needs a better statutory definition of cost-benefit considerations, researchers argue in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Helping providers prepare for what some have called a coming reimbursement war, the tech firm SAI Global Compliance has unveiled an application called the "Claims Denial Manager," designed to limit losses from pre-payment claims denials.
While major stock indices absorbed their biggest single-day losses of the year Wednesday as investors came to grips with the post-election reality of the fiscal cliff -- amplified by fresh EuroZone worries -- most of the large, publicly-traded insurance stocks absorbed losses far in excess of those of the broader markets.
Taking care of the elderly is never an easy job, but doing so in a crisis situation such as the double whammy of super storm Sandy and Wednesday's nor'easter is particularly challenging.