The federal government especially the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have targeted healthcare payment reform in an effort to...
Health insurance mergers and acquisitions have been a major topic within the payer industry lately. While companies that have pushed through with their mergers cite their potential cut of competition...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is pleased with the most recent enrollment numbers in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges. Department of Health and Human...
Several medical insurance companies have experienced losses and financial troubles within the federal and state health insurance exchanges. UnitedHealth Group, for example, has considered pulling out...
Needless to say, healthcare reform and the Affordable Care Act have revolutionized many avenues of the health payer industry. The individual mandate along with Medicaid expansion and federal tax...
The last day to sign up for 2016 medical coverage during the open enrollment period through the state and federal health insurance exchanges was January 31 and the Department of Health and Human...
The Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF) found in a new report that nearly seven out of ten uninsured Texans cite the high costs of medical...
The health insurance exchange system set up through healthcare.gov needs to be a robust technological platform in order to manage the vast amount of information and high enrollment numbers associated...
The deadline to apply for healthcare coverage through the federal health insurance exchange – healthcare.gov – is this Sunday, January 31. Currently, approximately 8.9 million people have...
Within both federal and state health insurance exchanges, payers are seeking methods for reducing cost in order to avoid profit loss and dropping out of the exchanges much like UnitedHealthcare’s...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act may have done its job in one particular state with regard to expanding health coverage options and providing federal subsidies on the health insurance...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has influenced greater health coverage among American citizens through establishing state health insurance exchanges. However, when creating this...
The high costs within the healthcare industry are often associated with managing the health of patients living with chronic medical conditions. At the J.P. Morgan’s Healthcare Conference in early...
One area in which the federal government has put in excessive amounts of funds is the managed care arena. The reasoning may be due to the growing elderly population of baby boomers. The US Government...
The future of the healthcare industry hangs in the balance as the presidential nominees within the United States have their own plans for how to improve the consumer experience and the world of the...
Even though President Barack Obama vetoed the Budget Reconciliation bill aimed at repealing the Affordable Care Act, there is still the potential that, if a Republican nominee wins the presidential...
Once the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed into law, a tide of legal challenges came crashing against the legislation. In particular, the state and federal health insurance...
The House of Representatives voted 240 to 181 in favor of the Budget Reconciliation bill, which would repeal large parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as well as take away funding...
Health insurance exchanges have faced a number of legal challenges in recent months, as some key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have found opposition. Last June, the...
Open enrollment via the health insurance exchanges has seen a dramatic rise in popularity since the starting date of November 1, as more than 8.2 million consumers signed up for health coverage on...
