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Insurers looking to compete in the ever-changing healthcare marketplace will continue to focus on technology in 2013 both 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.
As healthcare organizations increase their focus on data security and HIPAA compliance, Kroll's Cyber Security Forecast offers a list of four concerns every provider should take very seriously.
The Department of Health and Human Services estimates that some 25 million Americans will be buying health insurance through Affordable Care Act-certified exchanges within the next few years. But that and a lot of other HIX outcomes remain to be seen.
A recent analysis by an advocacy group for direct care workers finds that wages for personal care aides (PCAs) nationwide continue to be low.
New research from the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI) shows that employees enrolled in a Consumer Directed Health Plan (CDHP) are more likely than members of traditional health plans to exhibit cost-conscious behaviors including doing additional research on healthcare costs.
In the 166 pages of health insurance exchange rules published by the Department of Health and Human Services last March, one provision came as a pleasant surprise to some private HIX firms -- section 155.220, letting public exchanges contract with "web-based entities" to market and sell qualified health plans.
Medicare on Dec. 20 disclosed bonuses and penalties for nearly 3,000 hospitals as it ties almost $1 billion in payments to the quality of care provided to patients.
The U.S. market for clot management devices is on the rise and is expected to grow at an annual rate of 4.1 percent through 2017, said a new report from Millennium Research Group.
Business intelligence tools are often touted as business must-haves, but many small medical practices and other small healthcare companies worry about the cost of such tools. BI experts and users say there are affordable options out there.
Kroll Advisory Solutions has released its 2013 Cyber Security Forecast, spotlighting some of the pressing and perhaps unexpected privacy and security issues healthcare and other organizations may be grappling with in the coming year.