Recent research from Oliver Wyman shows that although the majority of payers are offering plans on the 2018 exchanges, they're altering their geographic footprints and rate increases.
Health insurance carriers all across the country are disclosing what they plan to charge customers for coverage in 2015 — almost everywhere, that is, except Missouri. In Connecticut, for example, Anthem Health Plans Inc. submitted its rates to the state’s insurance department in May, requesting an average increase of 12.5 percent. The state denied the […]
Closing cancer health equity gaps require medical breakthroughs made possible by new funding approaches.
While considerable attention has been heaped on the public health insurance exchanges over the year, private health insurance exchanges “are experiencing hyper-growth” and enrollment could exceed that of public exchanges by 2017, “if not sooner,” according to Accenture. In a recent report, Accenture said employers, consumers and carriers alike are expressing enthusiasm for private exchanges, […]
The glitches, the hearings and the endless jokes — they’re all part of the month that was in healthcare reform history. If you missed any of it, Washington Post has a great list of 31 things we learned in HealthCare.gov’s first 31 days. Some things on the list were expected even before the Oct. 1 […]
After the vague promises of help from a tech surge, it was refreshing to find two real solutions for the disaster at healthcare.gov. Both of these ideas blow away the lame excuses that President Obama gave Monday at his weak press conference about the failure of healthcare.gov. The president mentioned that old-fashioned approaches to signing […]
The Onion is at it again. This time, not targeting the Obamacare servers, but instead the opportunity Obamacare offers the newly insured “to become blindingly enraged at health insurance companies for the first time in their lives.” Best quote: “I’ve been working two to three jobs without once qualifying for health insurance for as long […]
The future looks bright for the integrated specialty pharmacy model – for health systems, providers, and most importantly, for patients.