Mergers & Acquisitions
So far this in this year, 2.78 million consumers have signed up for health plans.
Change will now offer customers a hosted service that combines multiple credentialing documents into a single instance.
But navigating the process, especially for a hospital with limited resources, must be done properly for the strategy to succeed.
Together, MDwise and McLaren Health Plan will serve more than 620,000 members, making it one of the region's largest system-run plans.
After failed merger with Humana, Aetna would need to convince feds that the merger is more than two industry behemoths coming together.
Amazon's potential foray into pharmacy business could squeeze providers' bottom lines even more.
Proposed cuts to reimbursement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services likely played a role.
Aetna will focus on core health insurance business while The Hartford Group will grow to become second largest life and disability insurer.
The combination of Medsphere's EHR and Stockell's revenue cycle management in the cloud will be offered through a subscription service payment model.
Though the Deloitte and HFMA report says things settle down after that initial "breaking in" period.