Community Benefit

A release of preliminary results by CIGNA from two accountable care pilot projects shows both are achieving lowered growth in healthcare costs while also improving quality of care.

The American National Standards Institute and Shared Assessments Program have helped launch a new program to explore the financial impact of unauthorized access to personal health information.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners will be meeting in Austin, Texas this week to consider a number of issues related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. One topic will be how the medical loss ratio provisions of the health care reform bill impacts brokers and consumers.

The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Care is set to launch a medical home certification pilot and is seeking community health centers and other primary care practices to participate.

Hospitals are falling short of the Joint Commission's language access requirements for patients with limited English, according to a new report.

Defining Best Practices to Identify and Reduce Readmission Triggers

In a speech to the Nashville Health Care Council, Marilyn Tavenner, principal deputy administrator and COO of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, highlighted programs that provide a "bridge" to full implementation of healthcare reform in 2014.

Facilities create more than 5 million jobs

The numbers of individuals and employers using health savings accounts increased last year, says Fidelity Investments, a nationwide provider of employer benefits.