by Keith Kuhn | Mar 1, 2016 | Payor
A new federal proposal would slash over payments made to Medicare Advantage plans sponsored by employers and unions years after an advisory board recommended the policy. The CMS proposed terminating the bidding process for employers and unions that offer 2017 Medicare...
by Keith Kuhn | Feb 29, 2016 | Payor
Citing an estimated $500 million loss last year on health insurance plans sold on the Affordable Care Act marketplace, Highmark Inc. said Friday it plans to reduce what it pays doctors who treat patients with the plans. Highmark plans to reduce payments to the...
by Keith Kuhn | Mar 11, 2015 | Payor
When is a loss a gain? It seems the answer is when the loss wasn’t nearly as bad as expected. That’s what major health insurers discovered when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed a slight decline in payments for Medicare Advantage plans. The...
by Keith Kuhn | Mar 10, 2015 | Industry
Illustrating once again that the world of college education is fertile ground for deployment of cutting-edge healthcare technologies and telemedicine, one college campus in Georgia is about to experience the benefits of telehealth. On Wednesday, the Georgia...
by Keith Kuhn | Mar 9, 2015 | Industry
No matter how much precision and care the prosthetics experts at Loma Linda University Medical Center (LLUMC) put into crafting an accurate prosthetic leg for one healthy, young female patient, she never felt quite right in it. It wasn’t until recently, with the aid...
