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CMS said the initiative is part of a broader effort to improve care and spend money more wisely by making use of available data.
Obama administration is making a push to get young adults covered on the health insurance marketplaces, both for their own good and that of the marketplaces, which need healthy people to balance sicker ones in the risk pool.
Anthem and its pharmacy manager Express Scripts overcharged patients with job-based insurance for prescription drugs, alleges a lawsuit that seeks class action status for what could be tens of thousands of Americans.
In a recently released issue paper and in a study in the journal Health Affairs last year, the Urban researchers modeled the spending impact of two programs that each paid a $100 daily benefit, with a 3 percent annual inflation adjustment.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia faces separate lawsuits accusing it of sending reimbursement money for emergency room care directly to patients -- and not to the hospital because it isn't part of the insurer's network. That's costing the hospitals money since patients don't always turn over the funds, according to the lawsuits, filed by Polk Medical Center in northwest Georgia and Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles
The United States House of Representatives' Committee on Energy and Commerce is demanding to know what Theranos, the embattled blood-testing startup based in California, is doing to address its testing inaccuracies and questionable adherence to federal guidelines.
Theft of a CHCS mobile device compromised the protected health information of hundreds of nursing home residents, according to the federal agency.
Risk adjustment transfers funds from issuers with low risk to plans with high actuarial risk.
Colorado-based health system Catholic Health Initiatives will be backing its way out of the insurance market after its health plan subsidiary, QualChoice Health, posted significant losses over the past couple of years, according to financial documents released by the company.
A third-party vendor is responsible for the security breach of the protected health information of 4,300 patients at Massachusetts General Hospital.