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After three terms in Congress and a primary loss last spring, Pennsylvania Congressman Jason Altmire is heading to Florida Blue as senior VP for government affairs, leaving one of the most fractious institutions in the country for one of the most tumultuous industries.
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded the consumer oriented and operated plan (CO-OP) in Illinois, the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council, with a $160 million loan to run the Land of Lincoln Health CO-OP.
A spokesman for Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback told the Legislature's Joint Committee on Health Policy Oversight that it will develop its own estimate of the cost of expanding Medicaid, before the state commits to the expansion as spelled out in the Affordable Care Act.
Insurer Florida Blue and the Moffitt Cancer Center on Thursday announced the creation of an accountable care program that will focus on the treatment of cancer.
When analyst house IDC's Health Insights unit shared its top 10 predictions for 2013, atop the list was that "health reform status quo would persist for the next four years."
As a strategy to improve its patient satisfaction scores and re-establish the human-to-human connection between patients and caregivers, Steve Pu, DO, medical director at Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center in Kennett, Mo., helped establish an initiative called Sacred Moments in January 2012.
A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examines how the Medicaid EHR incentive payments were distributed in 2011.
A new survey by CareerBuilder found that this year eight in 10 healthcare businesses have been impacted by bad hires, costing companies thousands of dollars.
Growth in health system capital spending in 2013 is projected to dip below 2010 levels as reimbursements continue to be cut, according to a recent Premier healthcare alliance survey of healthcare executives.
Researchers from global consulting company PwC say providers and insurers have ample opportunities, but also significant challenges in serving the roughly 30 million people who will become newly insured through Medicaid expansion and via the health insurance exchanges in the coming years.