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Health insurance is a must-have (not to mention a legal requirement), but it doesn’t protect you fully from medical costs. The average employer plan has an individual deductible of $1,135, and the popular Silver plans sold on state marketplaces in 2014 had an average...
Office-based physician visits made by diabetes patients rose 20% between 2005 and 2010, according to a new data brief from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The largest increase in visits (34%) was made by adults in their mid-20s to mid-40s,...
Hospital administrators in Connecticut who have been involved in the unprecedented streak of mergers and consolidations often tout the financial benefits and efficiencies of such moves. But as the number of independent hospitals in the state dwindles -- with more than...
Health IT company AbilTo has raised fresh capital for a program aimed at changing behavior for the costliest patient population — people with chronic conditions or multiple chronic conditions. The healthcare startup works with health plans by offering their members...
People in much of Minnesota, northwestern Pennsylvania and Tucson, Ariz., are getting the best bargains from the health care law's new insurance marketplaces: premiums half the price or less than what insurers in the country's most expensive places are charging. The...
A new $7 million award to the Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will create a far-reaching data platform that will link patients and doctors across 10 health systems around the U.S.,...
Seniors beware: Congress is considering changes to what Medicare will pay for, and what's coming out of your pocket. Congress is getting serious about changes to Medicare, even if that means cutting coverage to services that senior citizens have long enjoyed. At issue...
Two-thirds of people over the age of 65 need help completing the tasks of daily living, either from special devices such as canes, scooters and bathroom grab bars or from another person, new research shows. "If people are finding ways to successfully deal with their...
Enrollment begins for a national health insurance program in two weeks, and Wisconsin officials are already bracing for what could be an unprecedented wave of fraud attempts. The National Consumers League said criminals across the nation have begun using confusion...
The People for Quality Care Complaint Hotline has already logged more than 1,700 patient complaints nationwide. CMS is currently telling Congress that they have onle received about 30 complaints. Our job is to make sure that Congress hears the truth about what is...
WellCare Health Plans, Inc. announced positive results from initiatives aimed at improving the oral health of its Medicaid members in Kentucky. Since November 2011, when the company began serving the state’s Medicaid population, WellCare of Kentucky’s oral health...
When a local competitor closed its doors recently, provider Tyler Riddle had bad news for its capped-out oxygen patients: He couldn’t take them. “I am not going to take capped patients regardless of how nice a guy I am,” said Riddle, vice president of Albany,...
