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If one person could be credited with first conceptualizing and promoting the idea of health insurance exchanges, it's probably Alain Enthoven, an 82-year-old economist and retired Stanford University business professor.
The healthcare industry continued to grow, adding 45,000 jobs to the nation's economy in December, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported Friday.
A nurses' union in California is celebrating what it calls a first-in-the-nation workplace safety benefit in its new agreement with Centinela Hospital.
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded $1.9 million to fund five regional and one national telehealth resource center.
A 2.3 percent medical device tax went into effect on Jan. 1 as part of the Affordable Care Act, despite claims from medical device companies that the tax will significantly hurt their businesses.
A federal judge in Atlanta has temporarily blocked Georgia's new prompt payment law for self-funded plans' third party administrators, siding with America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) in citing the preemption of federal law.
With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) over the next few years there are going to be several new fees for both health insurers and employers sponsoring self-insured health plans that go into effect.
Gene Lindsey, MD, president and CEO of Newton, Mass.-based Atrius Health shares his thoughts on accountable care organizations (ACOs) and talks about Atrius' experience as a Pioneer ACO.
Insurers looking to compete in the ever-changing healthcare marketplace will continue to focus on technology in 2013 as a means of improving payment models and partnerships with provider groups and as the industry looks to make the transition to consumer-focused products it will offer on health insurance exchanges.
Despite objections of a large block of fiscally conservative Republicans, the House yesterday approved a fiscal cliff compromise crafted in the Senate in the first hours of the new year by a vote of 257 to 167, which also averted steep Medicare payment cuts to doctors for yet another year.