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Healthcare mergers and acquisitions (M&A) plummeted in the first quarter of 2013 compared both with the previous quarter and the year-ago period, according to a report released Thursday by Irving Levin Associates. Inc., which publishes M&A data.
The Oregon House has unanimously passed a bill that tries to take a step towards limiting Medicaid "churn" -- a problem some think may grow under expanded Medicaid and insurance exchange coverage, with individual and family incomes fluctuating in an uncertain economy.
In "Perfecting Patient Journeys" ($70, Lean Enterprise Institute), authors Judy Worth, Tom Shuker, Beau Keyte, Karl Ohaus, Jim Luckman, David Verble, Kirk Paluska and Todd Nickel offer a how-to guide for using lean management to make progress toward improving service delivery and costs. Beau Keyte and Jim Luckman talked to Healthcare Finance News about the book.
The record slow growth rate in healthcare spending in recent years is the result largely of economic factors beyond the health system, with the economic recession and its fallout explaining 77 percent of the slowdown, according to a report released Monday by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Altarum Institute. If the economy strengthens as anticipated, healthcare spending will also accelerate, the two organizations concluded.
Presence Health, the largest Catholic health system based in Illinois, has announced it will team with Harris Corporation to implement a new clinical integration platform.
WellPoint Inc., the second largest health insurer in the country, posted first quarter earnings Wednesday that significantly beat analysts estimates largely based on continued light usage of health services.
About seven months before the Affordable Care Act's "play or pay" employer responsibility provisions take effect, the Internal Revenue Service is still finalizing regulations for questions like whether seasonal tourism workers or part-time school instructors qualify for coverage and how to calculate hours across corporate structures.
A new analysis of seven years of consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) membership shows that enrollees in these plans were less likely than those with traditional insurance coverage to be between the ages of 21 and 34 according to a report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).
A new analysis of seven years of consumer-driven health plan (CDHP) membership shows that enrollees in these plans were less likely than those with traditional insurance coverage to be between the ages of 21 and 34 according to a report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).
The debate about the increasing role of nurse practitioners was taken up by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) early in April, when the commission addressed issues of reimbursement for NPs and other non-physician practitioners.