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Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have rocketed into the distance education spotlight since Stanford first offered one in the summer of 2011. Healthcare educators are getting on the bandwagon.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' website will soon publish the prices of the 140 most common in-patient, surgical and imaging services performed by every hospital in the state.
Pennsylvania healthcare organizations Highmark and UPMC have been litigating for some time, amid a contract set to end in 2014, and now a series of advertising campaigns has brought the governor into the debate.
A Michigan pilot to bring primary care to the home for patients living with advanced chronic illness will now spread across the state. Priority Health, a Michigan-based nonprofit health plan, tested the concept last year with Spectrum Health Medical Group for 90 of its patients.
A Michigan pilot to bring primary care to the home for patients living with advanced chronic illness will now spread across the state. Priority Health, a Michigan-based nonprofit health plan, tested the concept last year with Spectrum Health Medical Group for 90 of its patients.
To highlight the importance of consumer engagement by payers, a health rewards company has ranked health insurers based on how they got members involved in their daily health through the use of mobile tools and social media.
Along with Washington D.C., 23 states are expanding Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, while 21 are currently on the record declining expansion and six are kind of on the fence.
While ACOs are touted as a way to help fix an inefficient payment system that rewards more, not better, care, some economists warn they could lead to greater consolidation in the healthcare industry. Here are some answers to common questions about them.
The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' website will soon be publishing the prices of the 140 most common in-patient, surgical and imaging services performed by every hospital in the state.
As far as semantics go, therapeutics sound more appealing than generics, but researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles are saying that the switch may be worth it in more ways than just wordage.