The American Medical Association, American Academy of Family Physicians and other organizations are imploring insurance commissioners and the Obama administration to scrutinize health plans with narrow lists of medical providers, according to Forbes.
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According to CNBC, although a recent report estimated a couple age 65 today should expect to incur $245,000 in total healthcare expenses in retirement, that number might actually be too low.
According to research presented at the 2016 Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, uninsured patients and patients with Medicaid are more likely to present with advanced stages of head and neck cancer and have higher overall and cancer-specific mortality rates,…
Despite health insurer Oscar being relatively popular among millennials, the payer failed to attractive a significant number of California enrollees, according to International Business Times.
Benefits Science Technologies devised software that analyzes data from employee-insurance claims to predict health risks, according to Medical Xpress.
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Many large organizations and politicians have heavily critiqued the pending health insurance company mergers, claiming they will stifle competition and drive up costs for consumers, according to HealthPayer Intelligence.
Horizon Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Jersey launched its Episodes of Care Program in an effort to improve healthcare costs and quality and reward physicians for achieving those goals. Now, the payer has released the 2014 EOC Program…
UnitedHealthcare Community Plan now includes five more New York counties where it offers New York State sponsored health insurance programs Medicaid Managed Care.
Salt Lake City, Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare, a nonprofit health system, is promising to lower costs without increasing prices for its customers, according to NY Times.
New healthcare price transparency tools outlined in "The Self-Service Pricing Calculator: The Solution for Pricing Transparency" white paper from Recondo Technology may help hospitals cope with high deductibles and bad debt.