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An annual review of the nation's health insurers by athenahealth and Physicians Practices has placed Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna at the top of the list.
In less than a decade, for-profit hospices have proliferated at an astounding rate, and that may be cause for concern, say the authors of "In the Business of Dying: Questioning the Commercialization of Hospice," a study released earlier this month in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
The sixth annual PayerView rankings place Aetna at top for performance across several survey segments. The PayerView Rankings are published each year by EHR company athenahealth and Physicians Practices, a practice management journal for physicians.
Beacon IPA, a one-year-old Long Island-based physician network consisting of almost 200 healthcare practitioners, has announced a three-year contract with Empire BlueCross BlueShield aimed at finding new ways to enhance the overall quality, efficiency and safety of clinical care and reduce costs.
A new study by researchers at Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and CVS Caremark has found that 45 percent of people who provide care to a family member are more likely to neglect their own prescription medications than they are to neglect medication for the person for whom they are caring.
South-central Maryland's Civista Health System will join the University of Maryland Medical System on July 1.
Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine and national drugstore chain Walgreens have entered into a wide-ranging agreement designed to promote collaboration on population-based research and develop protocols to improve outcomes of patients with chronic diseases.
Since 2008, primary and specialty-care physicians have either seen their first-year guaranteed compensation increase or stay the same, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Physician Placement Starting Salary Survey: 2011 Report Based on 2010 Data."
Based on its model of managing chronic illness and proactive health management, Healthstat has been selected by Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield to manage an on-site health clinic for employees and dependents covered under its health benefit plan.
Seven U.S. senators have asked the Department of Health and Human Services to withdraw its proposed rule governing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's accountable care organizations because "it misses the target" of better care at lower costs.