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"Consumers are searching for plans that do more than just pay their medical bills," says an official with Wisconsin's Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which has launched Anthem Blue Rewards.
A national study of physician wages conducted by the UC Davis Health System has found that specialists are paid as much as 52 percent more than primary care doctors, even though primary care doctors see far more patients.
Karen Ignagni, president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, says improvements in healthcare access may come at the expense of cost containment and quality as reform moves forward.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced the formation of the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, designed to bridge the gap between now and 2014, when private insurers will no longer be allowed to decline coverage or charge higher premiums to people with pre-existing conditions.
After three years of stagnant business, America's healthcare system is seeing another round of consolidation, with clinical integration leading the way.
One of the largest recent security breaches of personal health information (PHI), involving 280,000 individuals, is on the surface a "pretty low-risk scenario," says one privacy expert.
Forty-nine percent of payers questioned believe that Value-Based Insurance Design is the most effective way to improve the performance of Disease Management (DM) and Wellness programs. This, according to a late summer poll conducted by the Gantry Group LLC in conjunction with Healthcare Payer News.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has made available up to $335 million for community health centers across the country under the Expanded Services initiative.
If Congress had known in 1965 how expensive Medicare would become, it might not have approved the program in the first place. So Lyndon Johnson made sure it didn’t know.
The Medical Group Management Association has released the results of its annual survey of member satisfaction with major health plans, which shows Medicare Part B topping the list in most of the categories.