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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota has recently signed up eight large health systems under an aligned incentive model, a critical milestone in the health plan's strategy of fostering an accountable care organization.
The Aetna Foundation and four other healthcare foundations in Connecticut have announced plans to fund a survey of residents aimed at finding out how well healthcare is delivered in the state.
Private equity firm Ancor Capital Partners announced Tuesday that it has acquired WellSpring Pharmaceutical Corporation, a manufacturer and marketer of specialty prescription and over-the-counter products. This is Ancor's fifteenth acquisition in the healthcare segment.
CMS will analyze enrollment and medical claims to keep bad actors out of Medicare, share information with Medicaid and thwart fraudulent payment.
The average compensation for leadership executives at healthcare systems increased 3 percent in 2011 and hospitals increased nursing employment by 1.8 according to new survey results released by Integrated Health Strategies.
Walmart - the nation's largest retailer and biggest private employer - now wants to dominate a growing part of the healthcare market, offering a range of medical services from basic prevention to management of chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease.
Chronically and seriously ill adults who received care from a medical home were less likely to report medical errors, test duplication and other care coordination failures, according to a new international survey from the Commonwealth Fund.
A group of states and vendors focused on eliminating the barriers to sharing electronic health records have issued a set of technical specifications to standardize connections between providers, health information exchanges and other data-sharing partners.
On the same day voters in Ohio were summarily rejecting by a margin of nearly 2-to-1 the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, justices at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia weighed in with a ruling upholding the mandate as constitutional.
On the same day voters in Ohio were summarily rejecting by a margin of nearly 2-to-1 the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, justices at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia weighed in with a ruling upholding the mandate as constitutional.