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Now that the federal government is set to run Missouri's health insurance exchange, after voters passed a proposition banning state creation of an exchange without legislative or voter approval, lawmakers say they'd actually like to create their own.
During the keynote address at the KronosWorks 2012 conference in Las Vegas on Monday, Billy Beane, general manager of Major League Baseball's Oakland Athletics, explained to an audience of workforce management professionals how using analytics for hiring new employees is key for business.
Litigation or threatened litigation in the senior care space is an ever-present facet of running a senior care business. An online panel discussion on Nov. 8 addressed ways in which boards of senior care businesses can avoid, or at least manage, legal trouble.
North of the Mason-Dixon Line, it's hard to find a state that has given more of a cold shoulder to President Barack Obama's health law than Maine.
Allscripts announced Thursday that its Q3 bookings were down 39 percent. In the wake of its poor performance, CEO Glen Tullman confirmed that the firm is considering "strategic alternatives" for a possible sale of the company.
The Everett Clinic and member-owned healthcare co-op Group Health Cooperative announced this week they would strengthen their existing relationship through an alliance that will create an accountable care organization to serve seniors in Group Health's Medicare Advantage plan.
Now that the election is over and the Affordable Care Act has been made permanent by the Supreme Court's decision, governors who have been sitting on healthcare decisions have "a lot of pent up energy" for moving forward, said former Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist at a post-election healthcare meeting held in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
A new market survey by MetLife finds that in 2012, national average long-term care rates increased from last year. Average long-term care costs rose in nearly all categories, except for home health aides and adult day services.
With Medicare enrollment and spending set to grow in the coming decades, the program needs to better spread risk and incentivize value and also needs a better statutory definition of cost-benefit considerations, researchers argue in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Short-term, contract nurses could be the key to alleviating the projected nationwide nursing shortage, according to a study published in the November issue of Health Affairs. Despite the promising study results, not all industry experts agree that contract nurses are the answer.