Community Benefit
A new report from the Health Performance Management Institute says employers should self-insure if they want to provide the most cost-effective health benefits to their employees.
One of the hallmarks of Obama's healthcare reform was ensuring that people with pre-existing conditions would not be denied health insurance. The clause went into effect in September 2010.
The developer of a national over-the-counter healthcare benefits payment platform now being used for Medicare Advantage members has unveiled a new platform for Medicaid, giving the beleaguered state-run program a means of controlling costs and cutting waste.
Highmark Inc. recently announced it would launch a two-year, patient-centered medical home pilot project.
The Department of Labor has released a competency model for the long-term care industry that officials hope will solve long-standing issues of low wages and a high staff turnover rate.
The Department of Health and Human Services has announced a new program, developed under the Affordable Care Act, that's aimed at eliminating medical errors and reducing healthcare costs on a national scale.
Is it too early to start thinking about the 2012 elections and potential candidates' takes on healthcare? I don't think so.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid recently awarded 15 states contracts of up to $1 million each to design new ways to improve and coordinate care for the 9 million people in the country who are beneficiaries of both Medicare and Medicaid.
Adverse events cost the healthcare industry billions of dollars. According to a 2010 report in the Archives of Internal Medicine, hospital-acquired sepsis and pneumonia in the United States caused more than 48,000 deaths and cost more than $8 billion to treat in a single year.
Brian Goldberg, an architecture teacher at the Rhode Island School of Design, said he was talking to a physicist about the development of a medical device for patients who need 24/7 monitoring for a heart attack for the rest of their lives when he began to think of how artists and designers could impact the healthcare system.