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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.
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.
Lest the healthcare industry not realize this simple fact: Although this does not garner much in the way of media attention, ICD-10 promises to improve the business of healthcare in numerous ways.
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.
Healthcare reform is a hot topic at this years’ Medical Group Management Association Annual Conference in New Orleans. Everyone is playing the waiting game, but much speculation has been heard during educational sessions.
The use of social networking in healthcare is fostering greater online collaboration that can lead to improved health outcomes and drive down costs, according to a new report from the Healthcare Performance Management (HPM) Institute.
HealthPartners, the nation's largest consumer-governed, nonprofit healthcare organization, has launched virtuwell.
As the federal government moves forward with plans to encourage accountable care organizations, experts are warning that some ACOs could raise healthcare costs rather than lower them.
Two Miami healthcare companies and four owners and senior managers of the companies have been indicted on charges of participating in a $200 million Medicare fraud scheme involving mental health services.
If anyone ever doubted the extent to which Congressional committees could turn good intentions into a bureaucratic nightmare, they need only to look at PPACA’s premium subsidy provisions and their potential impact on insurance exchanges.