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According to a recently commissioned study by American International Group (AIG), an international insurance company, significant barriers to patient safety still exist in healthcare.
The public health insurance exchange experience, for the executives, policy makers, IT workers and regulators managing them, has largely been of the designing and building a ship at the same time -- and months before it's set to cross an ocean.
Growing enrollment in high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) will be a major driver of the move toward healthcare price transparency and that move is expected to boost revenue for companies supporting that shift to $1.9 billion by 2016.
One of the most vexing issues in the Affordable Care Act's implementation is making the individual mandate work with a robust market -- and a large part of that means getting so-called "young invincibles" to buy insurance.
Do I have enough information? While that's a question that tugs on people's minds as they grapple with all sorts of decisions, it may be most persistent, and most significant, to doctors determining how best to treat their patients.
While the healthcare sector overall gained nearly 11,000 jobs in May, gains were significantly lower than the average of 24,000 a month over the prior 12-month period.
As convergence around the needs of patients and consumers intensifies, payers, providers, and employers are collaborating beyond their traditional boundaries. IBM's Institute for Business Value and the AHIP Foundation's Institute for Health Systems Solutions recently conducted research on this issue and its implications and will release their findings at this week's 2013 AHIP Institute.
Summa Health System and Catholic Health Partners are on the road to becoming accountable care organizations, and they're sharing what they've learned with attendees of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's ANI 2013 conference taking place next week in Orlando, Fla.
The 2013 AHIP Institute will drill down to specific healthcare topics through its concurrent sessions, including one that will explore the "patient-centered financial home," which extends consumer engagement from clinical care delivery to benefits and payments.
The Connecticut Attorney General has reached a settlement with the owner of six dental management and consulting firms accused of Medicaid fraud.