Risk Management
Flooding in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, leads agency to propose a rule to establish a more coordinated response to natural and man-made disasters.
Running its own health plan has allowed Marshfield Clinic to design a value-based reimbursement model that rewards physicians for quality, clean coding and cost maintenance.
While value-based care is making the move more attractive, getting an insurance product off the ground isn't the easiest.
Health system-owned plans now represent 52 percent of health insurance products, AIS said.
Between 1991 and 2006, more than 617,000 hospitalizations related to three common "premise plumbing pathogens" resulted in around $9 billion in Medicare payments -- an average of $600 million a year.
A higher chargemaster price can increase the payment from private insurers, which often pay for outpatient and ancillary services based on discounted chargemaster prices.
Forty-three percent of breaches in August were insider incidents, including both accidental and intentional wrongdoing.
AAP will use the funds to provide technical assistance and education to clinicians at community health centers and other healthcare sites around the country.
By 2015, uninsured rates in the state were down to 2.5 percent, compared to 9.1 percent nationwide.
Aetna, however, said many insurers have been forced to leave the exchanges due to what it called the instability of the marketplace.