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As more individuals, as opposed to group employers who might bring with them hundreds of employees, enter the insurance market in search of individual policies, health plans are going to have to figure out how to sell to them.
On Wednesday, at the AHIP Institute 2012 in Salt Lake City, Rick Solano, president and CEO of Mirixa, moderated a workshop entitled "Medication Therapy Management: The Next Phase in Managing Chronic Disease." The session delved into many aspects of MTM and Solano recently took a few moments to discuss MTM and its role in improving the care of people with chronic illness.
There is no shortage of uncertainty when it comes to the implementation of the state health insurance exchanges (HIX) by 2014, as required under the Affordable Care Act. Regardless of the snail's pace of guidance from HHS on key aspects of the HIX or even if the individual mandate is deemed unconstitutional, health plans should be making state-by-state analyses of how they will participate in these new marketplaces.
ICD-10 proponents are not going to like this one bit.
In the rush to regulate the fast-growing industry of mobile medical apps, Congress has apparently sidestepped a potential power struggle with the Food and Drug Administration over the agency's authority to regulate them.
A growing number of hospitals around the U.S. have adopted policies that ban discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients according to a report released Tuesday by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
BancTec, which specializes in financial business process outsourcing, transaction automation and document management, has acquired certain assets of Richardson, Texas-based GTESS, a provider of claims pre-adjudication technology and services for the healthcare industry.
Ardis Dee Hoven, MD, a Kentucky-based internal medicine and infectious disease specialist, has been elected president-elect of the American Medical Association (AMA).
Pharmaceutical sales representatives are not eligible for overtime pay ruled the United States Supreme Court.
The healthcare provider community must make changes to the delivery of care in order to meet the challenges currently facing the industry and the nation. That will be the central message Brent James, MD, chief quality officer and executive director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research at Intermountain Healthcare delivers during his speech "Clinical Transformation and Increasing Value," at the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI conference in Las Vegas at 2:45 p.m. on Monday, June 25.