by Keith Kuhn | Aug 31, 2013 | Regulations
Health care spending has increased faster and reached higher levels in New Hampshire than in most other states, but hospitals, insurers and others have been trying to tackle the problem long before the Affordable Care Act. The New Hampshire Citizens Health Initiative,...
by Keith Kuhn | Aug 30, 2013 | Regulations
The board of the state’s health exchange on Wednesday launched an effort to increase the number of insurance plans available for purchase on the state-based online marketplace. The Washington Health Benefit Exchange board was scheduled to certify the 31 plans...
by Keith Kuhn | Aug 29, 2013 | Industry
New Kaiser Permanente book reveals how to transform health care tech, leadership and education. Technology continues to dramatically propel us into a new era of care delivery. Innovations such as electronic health records (EHR), mobile health, telemedicine, telehealth...
by Keith Kuhn | Aug 29, 2013 | Government
Citing the need for patient access to critical services and other concerns, the American Medical Association and 31 other organized medicine groups and associations representing practice administrators stated their strong opposition to federal legislation that would...
by Keith Kuhn | Aug 29, 2013 | Government, Industry, Regulations
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced plans to investigate the controversial Medicare bidding program to “determine whether CMS selected DMEPOS suppliers and computed the single payment amounts in...
