Cigna's third quarter profits took a beating as the insurer posted a 16.6 percent drop in net profits and a 10.9 percent slide for the last nine months, Journal Inquirer reports.
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Medicare will begin paying for a strategy aimed at preventing those Americans at high-risk of diabetes from developing the disease, according to The Washington Post.
CMS cut the reporting period for physicians involved in the meaningful use EHR inventive program from a full year to 90 days as part of its outpatient prospective payment system final rule, according to Medscape.
CMS released the final 2017 ASC payment rule with plans to increase payment rates next year, and ASCA outlined the key components for ASCs.
Indianapolis-based Anthem failed to meet its third quarter earnings projections, Nasdaq reports.
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Indianapolis-based insurer Anthem said it may pull back from the exchanges in 2018 if results don't improve, Bloomberg reports.
Minnesotans looking to enroll into MNsure, their state's health insurance exchange, couldn't as a telephone attack took the exchange offline for several hours during the first day of enrollment, the Woodbury Bulletin reports.
Under the ACA, payer consolidation is on the rise — as evidenced by the Aetna-Humana merger earlier this year — as are high-deductible health plans. A group of ASC leaders and experts discussed how these trends affect surgery centers during…
Determining if a case will be profitable in an ASC is a difficult, complex task. One aspect of case costing often lost in the shuffle is accurate preference card data, ASC industry leaders said during a panel at the Becker's…
As healthcare continues down the path of value-based care, ASCs take on more financial risk and must find ways to maximize reimbursements by improving performance regarding CMS' ASCQR measures.