Medicare will reimburse both hospices furnishing palliative care and providers offering curative services under a new demonstration program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced. Currently, a beneficiary …
Blue Shield of California, Hill Physicians Medical Group and Dignity Health are starting a three-year Affordable Care Organization effort in San Joaquin County to provide “integrated, cost-efficient” health care to …
Massachusetts planned to cut ties with the contractor for its hobbled health care insurance website, state officials said Monday. CGI Group, a Montreal-based information technology firm, was also the lead …
A shifting health care market, and the possible end of a contract with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, will dictate whether more layoffs take place at health insurer Highmark, …
In just nine months, Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield subscribers will lose low-cost access to UPMC doctors and facilities. On Monday a Republican lawmaker teamed up with his Democratic colleague to …
The American Association for Homecare and the VGM Group applauded Representatives Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) and Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) for urging the Centers for Medicare and (CMS) Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn …
A few weeks ago, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini announced at the annual HIMSS conference that the insurance company was collaborating with medical device maker on heart failure and diabetes. It’s …
Health IT is expected to top $34.5B, yet despite pressure to innovate, the industry is quite behind in disruptive innovation. Instead what we are seeing is attempts to improve efficiencies, …
