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Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday that consumers will soon begin receiving unprecedented information on the value of their health insurance coverage, and some will receive rebates from insurance companies that spend less than 80 percent of their premium dollars on healthcare.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday that consumers will soon begin receiving unprecedented information on the value of their health insurance coverage, and some will receive rebates from insurance companies that spend less than 80 percent of their premium dollars on healthcare.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has paid $3.12 billion to physicians, hospitals and other healthcare providers who have started to meaningfully use electronic health records to improve the quality of patient care, HHS secretary Kathleen Sebelius said Friday.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that 2,000 hospitals and 41,000 physicians have received $3.1 billion in incentive payments for the meaningful use of certified electronic health records (EHRs).
It's no secret the industry's labor force is possibly its most costly expense. But with the lack of professionals and a disconcerting future, the fears surrounding the healthcare labor force are extending beyond its cost. Clinton Wingrove, EVP and principal consultant at Pilat HR Solutions outlines eight trends concerning the changing healthcare workforce.
Healthcare humorist David Glickman is set to show healthcare finance managers at MGMA's upcoming conference in Arizona how to find the funny in healthcare finance. He shares his secrets with us.
S&P Indices announced Thursday the results of its S&P Economic Healthcare Indices for the year ending December 2011, finding that healthcare costs as measured by annual rates of change went up across the board in the last month of the year.
A jury for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin awarded $52,009,941 in damages to Promega Corporation from Madison, Wis. on Wednesday for infringing sales by Life Technologies from Carlsbad, Calif.
Fifty-seven percent of private health plan payers are hesitant to accelerate the adoption of bundled payment without positive provider feedback, according to a recent poll from healthcare IT and research firm Gantry Group, LLC.
Christine Eibner, an economist and director of the Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts Microsimulation Modeling Initiative at the RAND Corporation in Arlington, Va, is the lead author of a study published in the February edition of the journal Health Affairs, which analyzed two rules -- allowing employers to self-insure or maintain grandfathered health insurance plans -- to avoid participating in health reform and how they might impact the future cost of health insurance.