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Rochester Regional Health System is among the hospitals building a war room for the ICD-10 deadline. A hand-picked squad of Rochester Regional staffers began working closely with each department and provider practice during the last year to assess readiness.
One of the main ways the Affordable Care Act seeks to reduce health care costs is by encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form networks that coordinate patient care and become eligible for bonuses when they deliver that care more efficiently.
Enrollment figures released this week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid show close to 10 million people have signed up for insurance through the Health Insurance Marketplace, as of June 30.
CMS said 9.9 million individuals had paid their premiums and had an active policy by the end of June.
As a Standard & Poor's report finds many insurers are missing the mark on their risk-adjustment predictions, a new partnership between population health management consultant Evolent Health and Health Fidelity, which develops technology to steer providers towards value-based care, aims to fill the gap.
As a Standard & Poor's report finds many insurers are missing the mark on their risk-adjustment predictions, a new partnership between population health management consultant Evolent Health and Health Fidelity, which develops technology to steer providers towards value-based care, aims to fill the gap.
Legislators on Thursday were split on the Affordable Care Act's effect on provider and payer competition in the healthcare marketplace in the the first of several hearings to be held by the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law.
In a stark departure from the past, the vast majority of the country's medical schools now integrate discussions of cost, value and effectiveness into their curricula.
New York health plan Excellus BlueCross BlueShield on Wednesday said it was a victim of a cyberattack that affected 10.5 million beneficiaries. Even worse, the plan said hackers had access to information systems for more than a year and a half before the health plan even noticed the cyberattack had occurred.
Boston-based Partners HealthCare and Salt Lake City-based Health Catalyst have agreed to team up to create the Partners HealthCare Center for Population Health and will share best practices, intellectual property, technology and training in an effort to boost its population health management.
Standard & Poor's has changed its outlook on nonprofit healthcare from 'negative' to 'stable,' the credit agency reported this week, as a flood of mergers and increased utilization due to Medicaid expansion continues to lift the sector.