Two Value Health portfolio companies, Healthcare Re and Muve Health, partnered to implement the nation's first reinsurance policy for an at-risk prospective bundle.
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CMS released ICD-10-PCS updates for hospital inpatient coding professionals to use for discharges from Oct. 1, 2018 through Sept. 30, 2019.
Consumers are now paying for a greater percentage of their healthcare bills. The average annual out-of-pocket costs per patient rose almost 230 percent between 2006 and 2015, according to a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.1 In addition, more employers…
The U.S. government pays $685 billion to subsidize health insurance annually, Bloomberg reports.
Anthem will acquire Aspire Health, a palliative care provider.
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The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association believes its Blue Distinction Total Care program is performing 96 percent better than competing programs in quality and outcome-related metrics.
The uninsured rate for 2017 held at 9.1 percent (more than 29 million people) despite attempts by President Donald Trump to dismantle the ACA, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Coordinating a patient's care with primary care physicians and care teams helps reduce wasteful spending, according to Lightbeam Health Solutions Vice President Sean Henson.
Anthem quelled fears it would leave Indianapolis behind to relocate to its new Atlanta-based technology center by announcing a $20 million expansion, the IndyStar reports.
Definitive Healthcare's database contains 712 ASCs in the Midwest. Here is the latest data on the total number of Medicare procedures for 10 centers in the region.