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Medicare pay cuts to physicians moved another step to being delayed and eventually eliminated as lawmakers again considered the sustainable growth rate formula for reimbursements.
Nonprofit healthcare providers may be at a tipping point with mounting negative pressures and more downgrades anticipated in 2014, a recent Standard & Poor's ratings report said.
Medicare Advantage has been using a risk adjustment payment formula since 2007, and now a similar approach is coming to insurance exchange markets.
The Obama administration's 2014 fiscal year budget proposal included a 28 percent cap on the benefits of tax-exempt bonds that could have a dramatic impact on healthcare providers.
Things are looking up for physicians fighting to get their payments from Medicare stable.
Among the businesses eyeing the growing market for employer self-funding is one of Colorado's health systems, the University of Colorado Health.
With HealthCare.gov better able to process applications, the focus now is making sure that consumer enrollment information sent to insurers is accurate so that coverage can be activated without a hitch Jan. 1 and advance payments to insurers based on tax credits can proceed.
About 100,000 Iowans newly eligible for Medicaid are set to get private insurance coverage through a demonstration project approved by the federal government, the second Medicaid "private option" okayed this year.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending December 13, 2013.
Stakeholders must keep the momentum going in order to sustain improvements in population health.