News
Telehealth's promise of opening a virtual connection between clinicians, organizations and patients offers the opportunity to increase patient access while improving care continuity. But telehealth can also provide business benefits for healthcare providers.
The Medicaid expansion was supposed to be the least controversial part of the health reform lawsuit. But since the Supreme Court essentially made broadening its eligibility voluntary for states, not a day goes by without news reports guessing how Medicaid will fare in the future.
Grand Junction, Colo., gets a lot of credit and attention as being home to pioneers in providing high-quality, low-cost healthcare. Healthcare leaders in the city of more than 58,000 are once again demonstrating their initiative.
Colorado pilot tests payment model to make behavioral health-primary care integration financially v…
Grand Junction, Colo., gets a lot of credit and attention as being home to pioneers in providing high-quality, low-cost healthcare. Healthcare leaders in the city of more than 58,000 are once again demonstrating their initiative.
Massachusetts is aiming set the first statewide target for healthcare spending in the U.S. by holding healthcare cost increases to the same rate as the state's economy.
It can be difficult to navigate through all the information Twitter puts out every second of every day. With such big changes happening constantly in the healthcare world -- especially with the impending ICD-10 transition -- it's important to be able to find pertinent information in a timely fashion. To help you be able to do that, we've cobbled together a list of some of the best ICD-10 tweeters currently out there.
A new report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shows that health insurers that offer commercial and Medicare plans operate at a loss for their Medicaid plans, while those that specialize in Medicaid only operate at a profit.
On Friday, the Mayo Clinic and Dartmouth-Hitchcock (D-H) in New Hampshire announced a formal collaboration with the goal of improving health and healthcare quality at both institutions while lowering overall costs.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is now offering a case management accreditation program and three organizations have already signed on.
A Government Accountability Office report issued late last week examining Medicare EHR incentive payments found only 16 percent of eligible hospitals and 9 percent of professionals received payments under the program in 2011.