In an editorial in Government Health IT, Mary Mosquera, senior editor, posited that division down party lines may be destroying the future of health insurance exchanges for many states.
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This past February, healthcare prices rose only 1.8 percent from the month before, the lowest rate of healthcare inflation since April 1998, according to a report from the Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending (pdf).
Massachusetts has spent just $91 million more a year to cover the uninsured since its health coverage law was passed in 2006, according to a report by the Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation reported in Kaiser Health News.
Colorado insurance companies are trying to lower the price of medical procedures by providing information on surgical costs, according to a Denver Business Journal report.
The insurance companies that administer the New York state health plan for state and local government employees overcharged taxpayers by about $11 million, according to an audit released Wednesday.
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Physicians and consumers have strong unfavorable feelings about health insurance companies, according to a report titled "State of Healthcare in the U.S. 2012," released by AdSAM.
Paula Dhanda, MD, and her husband John Clarke, CRNA, owners of Specialty Care and Surgery Center in Kelseyville, Calif., say ASCs are in jeopardy due to declining reimbursements, according to a Record-Bee report.
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston recently notified 6,831 patients that their billing information may have been compromised, after an individual found receipts for payments made by five patients at the hospital's surgical day center blowing through a nearby field,…
The extension of the ICD-10 implementation deadline may not mean much for healthcare providers, according to an ICD 10 Watch editorial.
The following data, from the National Hospital Discharge Survey, reflects the expected hospital payment source in different regions of the United States. Expected payment source is the type of program or insurance that, upon admission to the hospital, was expected…