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While some large insurers were reluctant to start selling lots of individual policies through the federal insurance marketplace, a number of Blues plans dove right in.
Among the themes at the Medical Group Management Association's annual conference in San Diego next week is the impact of personality -- from using personality for branding to understanding why people do what they do.
WellPoint Inc. has earned the status of Common Security Framework Certified from HITRUST, the information security and risk management organization, making it the largest health benefits company to achieve the certification for 2013.
Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, vital sexual health services for men and women are now covered by insurance plans at no extra cost. The law also ends annual and lifetime dollar limits on such care.
Firearm assaults cost U.S. hospitals almost $630 million in 2010, according to recent research by the Urban Institute. The cost of an inpatient stay for a firearm assault injury was nearly $14,000 more than average.
Firearm assaults cost U.S. hospitals almost $630 million in 2010 and alot of that falls on public payers, according to recent research by the Urban Institute.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plans to re-bid the city workers' health insurance contract has come to a halt for now, after a state court agreed with municipal union concerns and put the request for proposals on temporary hold.
In the states with largest uninsured populations, the stakes are high for this fall's insurance exchange enrollment -- the difference between the healthcare status-quo and improvements in healthcare access and sustainability.
As health systems and hospitals consolidate and battle for patients, they are starting to employ online consumer marketing efforts. A new Provider Web Presence Index is now available to track provider success.
A new healthcare environment where value is more important that volume requires a business model that incentivizes all providers on the care-delivery continuum to delivery higher value care.