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Jonathan Bush, CEO of cloud-based EMR provider athenahealth, talks about his company's growth strategy, how he plans to keep up with competitors and what keeps him up at night.
Insurers, lobbyists and state regulators are weighing in on the federal government's proposed rules for market regulations and rate reviews under the Affordable Care Act, with some worried about the potential for price shocks and market distortions associated with new age rating rules and limitations on geographic price variation.
An analysis by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services show that for the third consecutive year, healthcare spending grew in 2011 by 3.9 percent or a total of $2.7 trillion, the lowest growth rate recorded since CMS began tracking healthcare spending in 1960.
The insurance and technology firm SeeChange Health landed $15 million in capital funding from two investment firms, the Psilos Group and Maverick Capital, who say they sense a shift in the employer-provided insurance market towards more focus on wellbeing and early intervention.
Two labor unions in California are formalizing what has been a longstanding informal relationship. The National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and the California Nurses Association (CNA) announced last week a legal affiliation that is for now a strategic alliance rather than a merger.
In a recent analysis of nationally representative data published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, a JAMA Network publication, significant improvement in the delivery of underused care was shown; however, the overuse of ambulatory healthcare services hardly changed between the years of 1998 and 2009.
The Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST) has designated Booz Allen Hamilton as a Common Security Framework (CSF) Assessor.
Under the two-month patch approved by the House and Senate on January 1 to avert the "fiscal cliff" Congress has permanently cut more than $1.4 billion in funding that was earmarked to help consumer operated and oriented (CO-OP) health plans become established in all 50 states.
The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 became law on Jan. 2. Among its many provisions, the law postpones a scheduled 26.5 percent payment cut for physicians and other practitioners who treat Medicare patients, but payments to physicians may be temporarily held.
Even thought the recent fiscal cliff compromise brokered in the Senate will only patch two months, the legislation has permanently cut more than $1.4 billion in funding that was earmarked to help consumer operated and oriented (CO-OP) health plans become established in all 50 states.