Reimbursement

If you were eating in a Chinese restaurant, would you have the temerity to tell the manager how to repackage and re-price the items on the menu?

In 2012, Connecticut lawmakers passed a budget banking on $50 million in Medicaid savings from a plan limiting coverage for certain low-income young adults -- before the federal government approved a waiver for the plan.

In Oregon, a bill  to encourage mediation in disputes over medical errors is headed to the governor, in what supporters say is a step -- if small -- in the direction of malpractice reform.

Banking on repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan (R) on Tuesday unveiled a plan targeting four major areas of reform -- second on the list is healthcare.

Texas Blue begins HIX outreach and Covered California mulls promotions with major retailers like Walmart in this week's HIX Digest.

A new report from health plan comparison website HealthPocket.com shows that fewer than 2 percent of all health plans sold on the individual market today provide all of the essential health benefits (EHBs) as required under health reform.

Community Health Systems, one of the largest publicly-traded hospital systems in the country, and Cleveland Clinic have announced a strategic alliance aimed at allowing the two organizations to share clinical information to improve care and operational efficiency.

A new report by Trust for America's Health offers solutions to policy makers and the public to increase preventative healthcare. According to the report, prevention improves health and productivity "while saving billions in health care costs."

At the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, in January executives from Aetna, Cigna, Humana, Kaiser Permanente and UnitedHealth Group joined roughly 2,500 other corporate and government leaders from around the world to detail the concept of aligned incentives, called "resilient dynamism," which has emerged across industries.