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S&P Indices announced Thursday the results of its S&P Economic Healthcare Indices for the year ending December 2011, finding that healthcare costs as measured by annual rates of change went up across the board in the last month of the year.
A jury for the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin awarded $52,009,941 in damages to Promega Corporation from Madison, Wis. on Wednesday for infringing sales by Life Technologies from Carlsbad, Calif.
Fifty-seven percent of private health plan payers are hesitant to accelerate the adoption of bundled payment without positive provider feedback, according to a recent poll from healthcare IT and research firm Gantry Group, LLC.
Christine Eibner, an economist and director of the Comprehensive Assessment of Reform Efforts Microsimulation Modeling Initiative at the RAND Corporation in Arlington, Va, is the lead author of a study published in the February edition of the journal Health Affairs, which analyzed two rules -- allowing employers to self-insure or maintain grandfathered health insurance plans -- to avoid participating in health reform and how they might impact the future cost of health insurance.
Successfully coordinating the efforts between various health and community organizations and engaging patients in a meaningful way are central issues to consider when it comes to the Partnership for Patients initiative, according to several expert panelists speaking on a live webinar Wednesday.
Doctors are once again facing a postponement of a Medicare payment cut under a deal brokered by the House-Senate committee charged with writing a bill extending the payroll tax reduction.
The case for leapfrogging ICD-10 and holding out for ICD-11 just got a lot more curious. And though it's not here yet, when ICD-11 is ready, it will be something ICD-10 cannot: A 21st Century classification system.
Tom Sullivan examines the possibility of an ICD-10 delay causing the U.S. to move directly to ICD-11.
The Affordable Care Act provided approximately 54 million Americans with at least one new free preventive service in 2011 through their private health insurance plans, Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services secretary, announced Wednesday.
Government Health IT Editor Tom Sullivan speaks to Wendy Whittington, MD, who is CMO of Anthelio Healthcare Solutions about the possibility of an ICD-10 delay.