Patty Enrado

WASHINGTON – The AARP is expanding its relationship with UnitedHealthcare and creating a partnership with Aetna to offer AARP-branded HMO products to Medicare recipients. While som...

KANSAS CITY, MO – The Cerner Corp. is changing the landscape of organizations that provide healthcare payment cards as it expands its health plan ID and payment card outside its enterprise....

BOSTON – Massachusetts’ universal healthcare law celebrated its first anniversary in April. And depending on who you talk to, it’s either in need of refinement or an overhaul....

FRAMINGHAM, MA – Provider disconnects and inconsistent strategies are undermining U.S. pay-for-performance programs, a survey of healthcare payers reveals.Results of the survey, by Heal...

NEW YORK – A coalition of medical and advocacy groups is pushing for laws in 20 states that would require health insurers to provide colon screenings. Colonoscopies would hel...

WASHINGTON – At a March hearing, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) reported that Medicare is overpaying Medicare Advantage (MA) plans by an average of 112 percent....

GLENDALE, AZ – In healthcare, unlike other industries, business process management (BPM) covers two different areas, business processes and clinical workflow. With both, the desired outcome is t...

INDIANAPOLIS – WellPoint’s pharmacy benefit manager is offering financial incentive to its members in seven additional states for the latest generic-drug addition to its GenericSelect prog...

WASHINGTON – Criticized for allowing Medicare providers to abuse the tax system to the tune of more than $1.3 billion, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is answering back....

Inconsistent investments and strategies are undercutting the effectiveness of pay-for-performance initiatives in the United States, according to a recent payer-based survey on P4P programs....