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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia is recruiting members with diabetes for a national study testing the viability of an online self-management program, as the Blues and other insurers look for viable approaches to the expensive problem of diabetes.
"Step number one, two, three, four, five and six is really getting the website fixed," Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told both concerned and critical members of Senate Finance Committee, the birthplace of the Affordable Care Act, as Healthcare.gov's problems persisted five weeks after its go-live date.
A survey examining how U.S. hospitals are addressing CMS 30-day readmission penalties found that most facilities agree on what core strategies work the best for reducing preventable readmissions. Post-acute care coordination is near the top of the list.
Tenet Healthcare stock plunged Tuesday after the Dallas-based company lowered its fourth-quarter outlook and reported lower than estimated third-quarter earnings.
Humana's third-quarter net income fell almost 14 percent, but the company's leaders are maintaining this year's earnings guidance and see revenue increasing in 2014.
Colorado's experiment with accountable care in Medicaid has led to a second year of savings, and other states are taking note.
The settlement is one of the largest in the history of healthcare fraud in the U.S., including criminal fines and forfeiture totaling $485 million and civil settlements with the federal government and 45 states totaling $1.72 billion.
One of California's largest health systems, Sutter Health, is paying $46 million to settle allegations of overcharging payers with obscured anesthesia billing practices.
The federal agency that projects the nation's healthcare workforce needs has lagged in publishing updated estimates, leaving the government and industry to base their policies and investments on old data.
A New York state hospital association has put out a report card grading the quality of hospital graders. Five of the 10 report cards that were evaluated were given low marks.