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MINNEAPOLIS – Insurers offering long-term care insurance are becoming more conservative in setting up reserves for those policies, perhaps anticipating that more policyholders will eventually us...
MODESTO, CA – At a time when health plans are trying to cut administrative costs by pushing member self-service to member portals, one health plan has opened a retail storefront to reach out to...
RECENT LEGISLATIVE activity on healthcare issues in Washington has focused heavily on oversight and disagreement over spending. It’s hard to say which came first....
NEW YORK – Coordination of care among providers could be improved if financial incentives were properly aligned, recent research suggests. “Although accountable for tr...
DAYTON, OH – While e-prescribing initiatives are becoming more prevalent, the Anthem National Accounts pilot involving approximately 100 physicians in Dayton and Youngstown, Ohio eschews a healt...
SAN FRANCISCO – Community health centers can gain significant quality benefits from the use of electronic health records, but these benefits do not cover the costs of going paperless, reported a...
Contributed by Fred Bazzoli and Chip Means PLANO, TX – With another of the nation’s largest hospital chains announcing a multi-billion dollar buyout last month,...
Consorta members can get food service software Hospitals belonging to Consorta Inc., a Schaumburg, Ill.-based group purchasing organization, will receive discounted pricing on sof...
IN MID-JANUARY, Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates reported that it expects to record $200 million in bad debt expense in the fourth quarter due to an increase in self-paying patients....
The development of a new tool for measuring return on investment in hospital-based pay-for- performance (P4P) programs has been announced by the Leapfrog Group, HSM Group and Discern Consulting....