News
Insurance companies are faced with myriad challenges in today's market, not the least of which is finding how they will both upgrade their IT infrastructure and organizational capabilities in order to effectively execute new payment models.
To help organizations develop a solid framework for these changes, enterprise-class software company HealthEdge will present a session, "Five Steps to Market Reinvention: Supporting ACOs, Exchanges and Other Reform Initiatives," at 7:00 a.m. on Friday at AHIP's Institute 2012.
The recipients of 81 new Health Care Innovation Awards were announced last week by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
The American Medical Association's fifth annual National Health Insurer Report Card shows that the number of medical claims paid incorrectly by the nation's largest health insurers was cut in half last year, down to 9.5 percent of claims.
Creating specialized hospital units for elderly people with acute medical illness could reduce national healthcare costs by as much as $6 billion a year, according to a recent study by University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) researchers.
Harvey Riceberg, inpatient pharmacy supervisor at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada tells Healthcare Finance News Editor Rene Letourneau how the organization saved $750,000 in drug waste costs by implementing a new technology into their drug administering process.
Last week, Kimberly-Clark Health Care announced the four recipients of the second-annual HAI WATCHDOG Awards, created to recognize the efforts of healthcare professionals working together to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).
Western Pennsylvania's largest health insurer Highmark took another step toward building a comprehensive provider network in the region with the announcement this week of a $275 million commitment to Jefferson Regional Medical Center.
U.S. healthcare prices increased in May 2012, rising 0.2 percent over April prices, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) and Press Ganey Associates have launched a new survey tool designed to help accountable care organizations (ACOs) improve efficiency, quality and the patient's experience.
The Physician Sentiment Index, conducted by Watertown, Mass.-based athenahealth and Cambridge, Mass.-based Sermo, indicates that the majority of doctors expect the quality of healthcare to decrease in the near future.