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NewsSteward Health Care to market its own insurance
Hospital operator Steward Health Care System, which has recently been buying up hospitals in Massachusetts, will soon be entering the insurance market. State regulators on Monday approved Steward Read more...
Health plans spar with providers over ACO payment
If all goes as planned, we can expect CMS to issue rules for accountable care organization in the next few weeks. At that point, the disagreement over how ACOs will be defined likely will rise to a Read more...
WellPoint launches own attack on health reforms
In past weeks, trade group America's Health Insurance Plans has taken a lot of heat after unveiling a last-minute report suggesting that current health reforms could push up premiums dramatically Read more...
Healthcare players offer plan to cut costs by $2 trillion
This week the country's power players in the health plan, hospital, physician and union world--among others--have come together to propose what could turn out to be an astonishing change. The groups Read more...
Consumers Union plans to rate hospitals
The venerable organization behind the popular Consumer Reports magazine has announced that it's getting into the hospital ratings act. The publisher, Consumers Union, already offers assessments of Read more...
Using claims data for doctor ratings poses big problems
In theory, physician ratings and rankings aren't as scary as they used to be a few years ago. With activists like New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo helping to spark systematic changes in such Read more...
MA physician group files suit over rankings
The Massachusetts Medical Society has filed suit to stop a scheme under which doctors are ranked using cost and quality metrics by health plans working with an agency overseeing health insurance Read more...
Patients cut costs with faith-based health plans
Increasingly, consumer premiums are going up, along with deductibles. In an effort to fight this trend, some consumers are enrolling in faith-based alternatives to health insurance, under which Read more...
Health plan industry addressing policy cancellations
Hoping to get some control of a situation that is rapidly deteriorating into a series of regulatory fines, lawsuits and heinously bad PR, the health-insurance industry is mounting an initiative to Read more...
U.S. health plans propose to boost individual coverage
Particularly in California, where denials of coverage have become almost a cottage industry, the individual health insurance market is in trouble. Now, leading health industry trade America's Health Read more...
| Press ReleasesNew White Paper from CHOICE Administrators Exchange Solutions Discusses “Essential Health Benefits” Component of HeaORANGE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- CHOICE Administrators Exchange Solutions, the nation’s leader in developing and administering health insurance exchange programs, today issued an important white Read more >> Unprecedented tool developed for small businesses to find and compare health insurance plansUpdated website describes local plan benefits, pricing for first time WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A greatly expanded website to give small business owners an unprecedented detailed review of their Read more >> Medical Expense Trend Declines in 2010KENNEBUNK, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Total medical expenses, that is the amount of money health plans dispensed to pay for medical and hospital benefits, grew 1.7% in 2010, from $395 billion in 2009 Read more >> Simplee Launches Free Online Payments for Medical BillsFor the First Time Consumers Can Digitally Track, Reconcile, Review and Pay All of Their Medical Bills With a One-Stop Personal Health Care Expense Management ServicePALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 26, 2011 Read more >> New data: Affordable Care Act helps one million additional young adults get health insuranceWASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Today, the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data illustrating that the Affordable Care Act has Read more >> |
