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At the same time the government is encouraging healthcare providers, doctors and insurance companies to digitize healthcare information, the landscape for attacking that info is increasing dramatically. One industry insider provides seven tips for how to prevent a data breach.
The House Republican plan to repeal President Barack Obama's health law and turn Medicaid into a block grant program would save the federal government $1.7 trillion from 2013 to 2022, a 38-percent spending reduction, according to a recent report by the Urban Institute for the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A new report finds that the uncertainty caused by a congressional history of last-minute reprieves from Medicare sustainable growth rate (SGR) payment cuts has held back physician practices from participating in new Medicare payment and delivery models.
National Medicaid enrollment, spending down; Pennsylvania to allow 100K families booted from Medicaid back into program; and South Carolina's enrollment projection may be too low in this week's Medicaid Digest.
Citing continued sluggish increases in healthcare utilization, Aetna yesterday posted a third quarter profit of $523.2 million, or $1.55 per share, a per share increase of 11 percent over the third quarter of 2011 when the company posted profits of $1.40 per share.
Health plans are heading toward 100 percent participation in accountable care organizations (ACOs), according to a new study, with 78 percent of respondents already part of one, and 22 percent planning to participate in one. This is all leading to a scramble for health IT.
Independent doctors, before you hit the panic button and become employed by a hospital, take a deep breath. There are alternative options out there.
Some 40 percent of C-suite respondents to a survey on measuring the return on investment of their EMR technologies said they're using performance measures, according to a recent report from management consulting firm Beacon Partners, but just 36 percent said they're satisfied with the extent to which the data is used to measure the value brought to their organization.
Amid continued assertions by right-leaning politicians that full implementation of the Affordable Care Act will lead to significant job losses and stymie economic growth, the Urban Institute has released a study using Massachusetts as a model that predicts there will be little net effect to jobs and the overall economy if health reform is fully implemented.
According to a recent study released by the North Dakota Hospital Association, North Dakota hospitals and their employees contribute an estimated $4.7 billion each year to the state economy.