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Engagement is a big buzzword in healthcare these days. Every program seeks to achieve it; every provider wants to enhance it. But what is engagement exactly?
Medicare's release Wednesday of millions of records of payments made to the nation's doctors comes as the government is looking to find more cost-efficient ways to pay physicians and refashion the way the country's healthcare system is financed.
By releasing to the public a data set revealing what Medicare pays individual doctors, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says the transparency will help weed out fraud and prevent billing abuse, but physicians are crying foul.
The market for commercial full-risk insurance is slowly declining amid the rise of self-insurance, but a few large nationals, the Blues and some integrated care plans are still seeing healthy business.
New public insurance exchange enrollees are starting to use their prescription drug benefits, and so far their per-member costs are looking higher than in the average commercial plan.
Insurers offering Medicare Advantage plans got a bit of a reprieve this week when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services gave them a rate increase instead of the expected cut. CMS' 2015 rate announcement also addressed concerns over provider terminations and beneficiary cost sharing.
A mentoring program can help to keep employees engaged and loyal, hold down costs of recruiting and on-boarding and helps to create the next generation of organizational leadership.
Independence Blue Cross and DaVita HealthCare Partners are launching a new joint venture aiming to personalize, improve and ultimately reduce costs for chronic disease care in one of the country's most expensive healthcare markets.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is easing back on some of the reductions to Medicare Advantage, although the negative impact could still be as much 3 percent for some insurers and many changes loom beyond 2015.
Catholic Health Initiatives' long-term transformation strategy has a bit of the expected -- IT investment -- and the unexpected -- the creation of an insurance business.