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Payers who want to affect the change needed to revamp the healthcare delivery system will need to forge closer relationships with providers, be engaged more with members to help them manage their health, and create better alignment with the government said three health plan executives Thursday at AHIP Institute 2012 in Salt Lake City.
To observers and stakeholders alike, "innovation" may be the watchword that best sums up the mindset across much of the healthcare sector these days. One place where that innovation is beginning to take place is in the new partnerships being formed between providers and payers..
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Changes in the implementation of medical therapy management create improvement in care and controlling costs explained Rick Solano during a presentation Wednesday at the AHIP Institute. He shared those session insights in an interview with Healthcare Payer News/Healthcare Finance News contributing writer Jeff Rowe.
As more individuals, as opposed to group employers who might bring with them hundreds of employees, enter the insurance market in search of individual policies, health plans are going to have to figure out how to sell to them.
On Wednesday, at the AHIP Institute 2012 in Salt Lake City, Rick Solano, president and CEO of Mirixa, moderated a workshop entitled "Medication Therapy Management: The Next Phase in Managing Chronic Disease." The session delved into many aspects of MTM and Solano recently took a few moments to discuss MTM and its role in improving the care of people with chronic illness.
There is no shortage of uncertainty when it comes to the implementation of the state health insurance exchanges (HIX) by 2014, as required under the Affordable Care Act. Regardless of the snail's pace of guidance from HHS on key aspects of the HIX or even if the individual mandate is deemed unconstitutional, health plans should be making state-by-state analyses of how they will participate in these new marketplaces.
ICD-10 proponents are not going to like this one bit.
In the rush to regulate the fast-growing industry of mobile medical apps, Congress has apparently sidestepped a potential power struggle with the Food and Drug Administration over the agency's authority to regulate them.
A growing number of hospitals around the U.S. have adopted policies that ban discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) patients according to a report released Tuesday by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.