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By Healthcare Finance Staff | 02:10 pm | January 19, 2012
Millions of federal employees, retirees and their families will soon have access to Blue Button to download their personal health data from the websites of their health plans.
By Chris Anderson | 11:29 am | January 19, 2012
Most of the Medicare fee-for-service demonstration projects launched in the past two decades using disease management and value-based payments have failed to reduce costs, says a report issued yesterday by the Congressional Budget Office.
By Tom Sullivan | 11:28 am | January 19, 2012
Tea Party members make it clear repealing the ACA should be one of the first orders of business if conservative Republicans take the White House.
By Rene Letourneau | 10:29 am | January 19, 2012
A Miami-area resident pleaded guilty Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Miami for her role in a Medicare fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $200 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By Mary Mosquera | 10:08 am | January 19, 2012
Spurred by federal funding to upgrade enrollment systems and incentive programs to encourage increased coverage, more than half of the states expanded and simplified their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs' eligibility, enrollment and renewal procedures in 2011, according to a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
By Rene Letourneau | 05:28 pm | January 18, 2012
As healthcare business models evolve more quickly than ever to keep pace with sweeping reforms and emerging competitors, CEOs who support their hospitals' marketing goals are in the best position to gain a competitive edge, says brand strategy firm Smith & Jones.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 04:27 pm | January 18, 2012
More than one half of states expanded and simplified their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs' eligibility, enrollment and renewal procedures in 2011, often using technology to streamline and automate processes.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:51 am | January 18, 2012
HP Enterprise Services and Blue Shield of California have signed a five-year contract under which HP will provide technology infrastructure and applications support to the not-for-profit health plan, which has 3.3 million members.
By Healthcare Finance Staff | 11:39 am | January 18, 2012
The Healthcare IT sector raised almost half a billion in venture capital last year, according to Mercom Capital Group, a global communications and consulting firm.
By Chris Anderson | 11:03 am | January 18, 2012
A new survey by Children's Hospital Boston shows that neurologically impaired children, though still a relatively small part of the overall population, account for increasing hospital resources, particularly within children's hospitals.