Operations

Premium rates published by a number of states for health insurance exchange plans appear to be lower than originally expected, but experts anticipate it won’t last.

The delay of the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate gives businesses and health plans an opportunity to better prepare, not to put off what they know they must do.

War zone military care tactics inform Lincoln Health System ACO design.

When it comes to hospital construction and design, the decisions around what is built and how it's built all have significant impact on not only an organization's bottom line, but also the quality of care given to patients.

Too often healthcare providers find themselves handicapped when it comes to optimizing business processes because their primary mission is care, and business comes second.

Patient Safety First has helped California hospitals avoid 3,576 deaths and more than $63 million in unnecessary hospital costs between 2009 and 2012.

Accountable care organizations have the potential to slow health spending growth and improve quality of care but regulating them poses challenges related to competition.

Wellpoint said its solid financial results were due to taming medical cost increases in its employer-based business and benefiting from the Medicaid operations in its recent Amerigroup transaction.

Within the context of the healthcare supply chain, Business Intelligence (BI) technology can offer chief financial officers, supply chain executives and other hospital personnel an automated way to obtain end-to-end visibility of service line management, according to Group Purchasing Organizations.

Some of the most challenging aspects for payers to prepare for operating on the exchanges have to with the basics, such as products, rates and service models.