During the second quarter, UnitedHealth had a 28 percent increase in profits, growing by $10.2 billion compared to the second period last year, according to The Hill.
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A new Kaiser Family Foundation study provides a snapshot of Medicare beneficiaries who died at some point in 2014 and spending at the end of life.
In a recent brief interview in Iowa, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell addressed why the healthcare industry needs competition to lower the financial impact on patients, according to Bloomberg.
Millennials are more likely drawn toward non-traditional ways of paying medical expenses, according to the 2016 Aflac WorkForce Report, reported in Compensation BLR.
Many healthcare advocates have continually argued making patients more responsible for their healthcare dollars will lower over-utilization of services, according to Huffington Post.
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With the shift to pay-for-performance rapidly approaching, ambulatory surgery centers and physician-owned facilities need to be at the top of their game to ensure they are not losing revenue.
This week, the House Appropriations Committee approved a health and labor spending bill totaling $161 billion, according to The Hill.
Illinois regulators made moves earlier this week to shut down the state's co-op Land of Lincoln, leaving seven of the Affordable Care Act's original 23 co-ops to either close or survive in the volatile payer marketplace, according to Kaiser Health…
In a meeting with the Senate Finance Committee, CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt said the agency would consider delaying Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, which is currently set to take effect on Jan. 1, 2017, according to…
A Deloitte survey found almost 50 percent of physicians have never heard of CMS' Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015.