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Florida Health Choices, a corporation established by the state to improve access to care, has selected Xerox to administer its insurance marketplace.
The future of the nation's largest health insurance program -- Medicaid -- hangs in the balance of the Supreme Court's decision on the 2010 health law.
The Kentucky Health Information Exchange, St. Elizabeth Healthcare and Healthbridge are successfully sharing patient information. The partnership, says Trudi Matthews, director of policy and public relations for HealthBridge, is just the "tip of the iceberg" in terms of connecting healthcare providers and sharing patient information in Kentucky and healthcare markets in bordering states.
A study released last week by the non-profit healthcare consumer advocacy group Families USA found that in 2010, 26,100 people between the ages of 25 and 64 died prematurely due to a lack of health insurance.
All eyes in the healthcare industry are on the Supreme Court as they await its ruling on the Affordable Care Act, now likely to be handed down Thursday morning. There's no doubt the decision will have a major impact on a number of issues, ranging from new industry regulations to popular provisions to the effects on small businesses.
A financial rationale for merging is always part of the equation in such a business move, but more and more, healthcare businesses are choosing to merge for strategic reasons.
Approaching and dealing with commercial payers is "very much a game," but by understanding current trends in denials and learning the best practices for documenting and demonstrating medical necessity, managed care organizations can substantially reduce denials for inpatient care.
Integrity, compassion and perseverance are the key traits of an effective leader, Captain Chesley Sullenberger, who successfully landed a plane on the Hudson River in January 2009, told an audience of healthcare financial managers at HFMA's ANI conference in Las Vegas on Monday.
Kaiser Permanente and the Social Security Administration on Monday announced a pilot program to exchange electronic health record information using the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN).
New compliance measures and shifts in information technology stalled payer performance improvement in 2011 according to the seventh annual PayerView rankings released today by health IT company athenahealth.