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A few Penn State professors are protesting a new policy requiring employees to complete health risk assessments, showing the tensions that penalty-driven wellness plans can bring.
The recent healthcare cost growth reduction is real, and it could be maintained because incentive structures have the potential to link the self-interest of all major health system stakeholders with the social interest in cost growth containment, quality improvement and better population health.
As the Department of Health and Human Services invests $67 million in insurance exchange navigators and $150 million more in enrollment assistance, some attorneys general are raising privacy and fraud concerns.
Florida's Shands Healthcare has agreed to pay $26 million to settle allegations that six of the network's hospitals had billed Medicare, Medicaid and the Department of Defense's TRICARE healthcare program for inpatient procedures that should have been processed as outpatient services, the Justice Department said Monday.
Florida's Shands Healthcare has agreed to pay $26 million to settle overbilling allegations.
Massachusetts' first annual report on the commonwealth's healthcare market shows a limited movement away from fee-for-service and a market concentrated among a few large payers.
The benefit of nonprofit hospitals to their surrounding community has increasingly been coming under scrutiny -- at least in relation to whether or not the benefit is equal to their tax-exempt status.
Premium rates published by a number of states for health insurance exchange plans appear to be lower than originally expected, but experts anticipate it won’t last.
Put to rest any hopes that Recovery Audit Contractors, or RACs, will be going away anytime soon.
As medical supply prices have steadily risen in recent years, many hospitals have turned to group purchasing organizations to buy in bulk and keep costs down, but group product purchasing also complicates the product supply trail, often leading to errors that prevent fulfillment, delivery and payment.