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NewsHospitals shift burden of rising healthcare costs to insurers
As healthcare costs continue to rise, already burdened hospitals and providers likely will shift more of those costs onto private insurers, a trend made clear by the latest Healthcare Economic Read more...
Highmark to acquire a healthcare system
As hospitals continue to merge, acquire and consolidate to manage spiraling healthcare costs, they may soon find unlikely business partners: health insurers. In the most recent move to integrate Read more...
AMA blasts insurers for costly 20 percent error rate
Health insurance errors cost health systems $1.5 billion in unnecessary administrative costs, according to new research released today from the American Medical Association (AMA), which studied the Read more...
Health plans open community-based clinics to cut hospital costs
Focused on keeping hospital costs down for their low-income charges, many Medicaid and Medicare health insurers for the disabled are opening up community-based clinics to provide services to Read more...
More long-term-care patients join managed care plans
To rein in rising Medicaid costs, states are increasingly requiring their frailest and most expensive patients--the elderly and disabled who need long-term care--to enroll in managed care plans, Read more...
Hatch blasts lack of transparency in waiver process
A lack of transparency suggests the benefit waiver process established under the Affordable Care Act needs better oversight, according to a letter Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) sent yesterday to Centers Read more...
Humana (NYSE: HUM) will buy Concentra for $790M
Insurance behemoth Humana (NYSE:HUM) announced Monday that it will buy Concentra Inc., a privately held healthcare company, for $790 million cash. The acquisition will give Humana more than 300 Read more...
Medicaid payers consistently slow to reimburse doctors, survey finds
With health reform expected to dramatically push Medicaid enrollment growth in the coming years, news of consistently poor performance from Medicaid payers in terms of speed and quality in Read more...
New Mexico establishes baseline spending for insurers
The New Mexico Legislature has passed a bill requiring most health insurers to spend 85 percent of every premium dollar on direct healthcare services, with the remaining 15% going for administrative Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Failure of health reform might be bad news for health plans
At first glance, many observers have assumed that health insurers would do well if the health reform effort collapsed. But in reality, that might not be true, suggest some health policy experts and Read more...
| Press ReleasesBerkery Noyes Represents Healthx in Its Majority Recapitalization by Frontier CapitalNEW YORK, Jan. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Berkery Noyes, a leading independent investment bank providing mergers & acquisitions and capital raising advisory services to middle-market companies in Read more >> Health Insurer Charging Unreasonable Rate IncreasesAffordable Care Act shines a light on insurance company rate hikes, helps keep money in the pockets of Americans WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Everence Insurance of Pennsylvania is charging small Read more >> Leading Health Plans Perform Well for First Half of 2011KENNEBUNK, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- For the first half of 2011 top health plans saw a combined net increase of over 2 million members from December 2010. While aggregated fully-insured business Read more >> Affordable Care Act grants provide $3,531,085 to help fight health insurance premium hikes in IllinoisHHS releases new report showing how rate review protects consumers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced Read more >> Affordable Care Act grants provide $4,091,507 to help fight health insurance premium hikes in OhioHHS releases new report showing how rate review protects consumers WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced Read more >> |
