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Minnesota-based IT company's platform allows health plans, employers to schedule reimbursements for health club visits.
Hospitals employed more than 5.4 million people in 2009 and contributed more than 2.2 trillion dollars to economic activity says a new report released by the American Hospital Association.
The satellite emergency department market is doing well, and from what I have seen, as attractive to patients as hospitals looking to implement them.
A 2010 Government Accountability Office survey of physicians who serve children found that physicians have a harder time referring their pediatric patients in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to specialty care than they do when they refer children covered by private insurance.
Highmark and the West Penn Allegheny Health System have reached a provisional agreement that would see the health plan acquire the struggling hospital operator for $475 million.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has informed state Medicaid directors of new smoking cessation services and reminded them that Medicaid programs are now required to fully cover those services for pregnant women.
U.S. Reps. Allyson Schwartz (D-Pa.) and Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and 26 co-sponsors have introduced the Home Health Care Planning Improvement Act, which would allow physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinic nurse specialists and certified nurse midwives to order home health services for Medicare beneficiaries.
Rising healthcare costs, coupled with the current state of the economy, are prompting consumers to delay care, alter household spending and worry about their ability to pay for future healthcare costs, according to the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
The worldwide wound care market reached revenues of $14.9 billion, up nearly 6.2 percent in 2010, and can expect to grow nearly 7 percent this year, according to healthcare market research publisher Kalorama Information.
In all the talk around healthcare reform, the issue of meeting medical transportation needs of the burgeoning senior population hasn't received a lot of press, but as the healthcare system grapples with how it will manage an estimated 70 million Americans who will be age 65 and older by 2030, industry insiders say it's imperative the issue be addressed.