Healthcare Finance Staff
In pursuit of integrated care delivery and more integrated business, two Atlanta health systems are forming the Georgia Health Collaborative and launching joint health plans.
The St. Louis-based insurer Centene said it's buying a comprehensive speciality drug company called AcariaHealth for $152 million, as part of its plan for treatment of complex illnesses.
UnitedHealth Group is pushing a theme of behavior change and incentives to improve America's troubled healthcare system -- and, more importantly, the American patient. It's a battle that Reed Tuckson, MD, UnitedHealth's executive vice president and chief of medical affairs, says won't be easy.
California's top insurance regulator is backing a state ballot initiative asking voters to give his office the power to approve health insurance rate increases.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission intensified its call to repeal the SGR (Sustainable Growth Rate) formula despite the legislative fix at year-end to avert the fiscal cliff and override the planned 26.5 percent cut to provider payments.
Were Mark Twain still around, he might say that reports on the killing off of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans have been greatly exaggerated.
An Oregon lawmaker wants to open the state insurance rate review process to consumer watchdog groups, potentially making public certain financial data and giving consumer groups the right to intervene.
Insurers, lobbyists and state regulators are weighing in on the federal government's proposed rules for market regulations and rate reviews under the Affordable Care Act, with some worried about the potential for price shocks and market distortions associated with new age rating rules and limitations on geographic price variation.
The insurance and technology firm SeeChange Health landed $15 million in capital funding from two investment firms, the Psilos Group and Maverick Capital, who say they sense a shift in the employer-provided insurance market towards more focus on wellbeing and early intervention.
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has designated Booz Allen Hamilton as a Common Security Framework (CSF) Assessor.