Policy and Legislation
As president and CEO of one of the country's largest healthcare organizations, Susan DeVore has pushed for cost-effective and high-quality care as well as set an example for the importance of ethical business standards.
A proposed rule that would establish a unique health plan identifier under HIPAA and would implement several administrative simplification provisions of the Affordable Care Act was announced Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
In a deal that aims to create a technology company focused on providing real-time data to doctors from both medical records and private payers, Lumeris and payers Highmark Inc., Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey and Independence Blue Cross announced they will acquire NaviNet for an undisclosed price.
Older people are much more likely to vote. So it’s really no wonder that spending priorities in this country are biased toward the old, or that the biggest – and completely unfunded – spending boost for the old in the form of the Medicare Part D drug benefit occurred under the notionally conservative George W. Bush and a Republican Congress.
Healthcare is a complex industry, and changing the way business is done to ensure the viability and success of hospitals and medical suppliers is a daunting challenge. With the Supreme Court scheduled to review the healthcare reform act in the year ahead, 2012 should continue to be a disruptive one for the industry. And that’s not entirely a bad thing.
On Oct. 31, 2011, President Barack Obama issued an executive order to the Food and Drug Administration to do everything possible to detect and deter drug shortages in the United States, which have been a problem for years and have recently reached record levels.
By the time this issue of Healthcare Finance News is published, the U.S. Supreme Court will have heard arguments on the Affordable Care Act. Since the announcement that the court would take the case, we’ve covered in print and online how the case could play out with the court, as have analysts across the country. Looking for new – slightly off-kilter – perspectives on the much-debated law and case, we’ve reached out to comedians for their take on it.
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) announced last week a three-year demonstration project that will take place in four counties aimed at improving care coordination for seniors and persons with disabilities who are dually eligible for Medicare and the state's Medicaid insurance program Medi-Cal.
The fragmented delivery of care and the number of providers involved in a patient's episode of care erects barriers to be able to effectively coordinate care, said the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission during a meeting last Friday.
There are many "first woman to" accomplishments on Christine Cassel's resume but she is best known as an expert on geriatric medicine and a proponent of professional certification.