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Humana Inc. this morning released financial results for its third quarter that showed net profits up more than 13 percent compared to its third quarter 2010 results.
Grants totaling $4.5 million have been awarded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to support three research centers that focus on clinical preventive services.
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday that HP Enterprise Services will be a prime contractor for the VA Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology (T4) program, which aims at transforming the VA's IT programs in order to improve quality of healthcare and benefits services to veterans, their families and survivors.
Washington governor Chris Gregoire last week proposed cutting at least $664 million from healthcare programs in order to help balance the state's budget.
U.S. healthcare prices increased in September 2011, rising 0.2 percent over August prices, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Medicare Part B premiums in 2012 will be more than 6 percent less than was projected earlier this year by the Medicare Trustees.
Pay-for-performance (P4P) does not cause a negative impact on patient outcomes, according to a new study.
Faced with staggering economic woes, Medicaid officials in most states are enacting cost cutting measures for Medicaid spending as the average state contribution to the entitlement program is projected to increase 28.7 percent in FY 2011 to make up for the loss of federal funds, according to a new survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured.
Pay-for-performance (P4P) does not result in providers cherry-picking patients, nor does it cause a negative impact on patient outcomes, according to a new study by researchers from the American College of Surgeons (ACS), released at the ACS Clinical Congress in San Francisco on Thursday.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services clearly listened to the provider and insurer communities in determining the final rule for how to establish accountable care organizations (ACOs). CMS is much more systematic about the establishment of ACOs, laying out a ramp-up period and then a shared savings model down the road, according to payers and their stakeholders.