A two-year payment hike for primary care doctors who treat Medicaid patients, called for by the healthcare law, might not happen without a struggle in Florida. Meanwhile, Kansas waits to hear back from the feds on its proposal to change Medicaid, and N...
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota's state health insurance exchange will cost $54 million in 2015 to operate, according to the Gov. Mark Dayton administration. The cost comes in at greater than earlier estimates of $30 to $40 million. The state would no...
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
A new study showed that patients with online access to their doctors - namely e-mail - actually scheduled more in-person office visits.
The Obama administration on Tuesday effectively nullified a provision of the federal health law that would have allowed insurers in the small group market to charge smokers up to 50 percent more than nonsmokers. Under the proposed regulation, employees...
Long-awaited details on how insurers can structure health benefits and premiums for policies that will cover tens of millions of Americans starting in 2014 were released by the Obama administration Tuesday. The three proposed rules reaffirm key elem...
The Obama Administration Tuesday released some much anticipated rules that will govern the types of benefits insurers must offer in policies sold after 2014 and rules on how they can design wellness programs. States and insurers have been waiting for t...
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
President Barack Obama’s victory preserves the federal health overhaul that he championed. The law, which withstood a challenge at the Supreme Court last summer and was bitterly assailed by Republicans during the campaign, is slated to move forward w...
With the national health law’s political future now entrenched, a deluge of new rules is expected in the coming days and weeks as the Obama administration fleshes out the law’s complex components. Most of the anticipation so far has been focused...
New online insurance markets set to begin selling health coverage to consumers next October may be hampered by delays in launching a key computer program, according to state consultants and insurance regulators. State regulators learned late last week ...
Last month, Sacramento County announced it was joining LIHP and California's "Bridge to Reform" initiative, a state program which gives counties access to federal funds in advance of the Medicaid expansion called for in the federal health law in 2014. Almost all of California’s 58 counties have signed up and have enrolled 552,000 people in new coverage
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
George C. Halvorson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, discusses his plans to invest a billion dollars in a Washington, D.C., expansion, his thoughts on premium cost comparisons, and the health law's future.
The American Hospital Association sued the agency that oversees Medicare, saying an audit program is depriving hospitals of reimbursements for care they provide.
According to a Government Accountability Office report, doctors who referred patients for tests involving advanced imaging machines that they or a family member owned cost Medicare more than $100 million in 2010. Modern Healthcare: Self-Referral Boosts...
Big employers and unions are asking insurers and health care providers for greater price transparency when it comes to how much each pays for health care. Kaiser Health News: Employers, Unions Jointly Demand Health Care Price Transparency Employees who...
More than 30 plans are expected to seek to be part of the exchange, or new marketplace. Meanwhile, a small business health coverage exchange in Massachusetts -- a model for those called for by the health law in other states -- struggles. Los Angeles Ti...