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Kicking off the spring season of managed care earnings statements, UnitedHealth Group shows that business is bustling for modernizing American healthcare and expanding insurance.
For example, among narrow network plans, median premiums are 10 percent higher for plans with an academic medical center than for those without.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is offering businesses long-awaited guidance on employee wellness programs, condoning controversial financial incentives while also raising some questions about other practices.
Both lists rely on answers to a hospital’s Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys.
Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems surveys used for both lists.
The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota will first install Optum360 and then roll out the new system later for other Mayo Clinic facilities.
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services assigns ratings to more than 3,500 hospitals, which it said will give consumers a clearer picture of quality when it comes to choosing a healthcare provider.
In an effort to make comparing hospitals more like shopping for refrigerators and restaurants, the federal government has awarded its first star ratings to hospitals based on patients' appraisals.
Former Birmingham Health Care Chief Financial Officer Terri McGuire Mollica diverted $11 million from the Birmingham clinic and Central Alabama Comprehensive Health, which was also under the fiscal control of BHC.
Greater Philadelphia's largest insurer ended 2014 with a healthy margin, if one lower than a year before, and a portfolio full of new products and ventures.