UPDATED. Insurance startup Oscar Health is seeking approval to enter California’s health benefits exchange by 2016, telling its board of directors that the company’s focus on consumers would be beneficial to the state. Started in early 2014, New York-based Oscar is trying to position itself as the technology-driven, consumer-focused alternative to the big carriers. It’s […]
A pilot program by University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and health insurance giant UnitedHealthcare is underway that will seek a new payment model for head and neck cancers, marking one of the first bundled payment initiatives specifically focused on cancer. The shift away from the fee-for-service model has largely been applied to primary […]
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At a health IT conference I attended in Harrisburg last week, I learned that one data stream that payers are interested in is credit scores as a predictor of health. The thinking is the worse the credit score, the worse their health is likely to be. Of course, they could just be behind in their […]