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North Carolina awards $6 billion in Medicaid contracts
Four insurers scored contracts to serve North Carolina Medicaid beneficiaries under the state’s new managed care program launching in November.
Hospital price growth driving healthcare spending
Hospital prices for inpatient care grew 42% from 2007 to 2014 while physician prices rose 18%, according to a new study. This trend should direct policy reform, researchers said.
Azar calls on hospitals to make list price information more useful
HHS Secretary Azar said that hospitals need to do better at explaining list prices to consumers now that they have to post the information online.
Providence St. Joseph Health launches for-profit population health management company
Providence St. Joseph Health has launched a new, for-profit population health management company called Ayin Health Solutions.
Hospital develops package prices to lure cash-paying patients
Bundled pricing is rare-to-nonexistent among full-service U.S. hospitals, most of which say they don’t know their actual costs for providing care and therefore can’t offer such prices.
Bold Moves: Ascension’s Patricia Maryland on reorganization and job loss
Ascension recently split the title of president and CEO and unified its two-pronged structure. That will result in the upcoming departure of three top executives including Patricia Maryland, who has been at Ascension for 15 years.
Q&A: CFO Karen Hanlon says Highmark is moving past the UPMC conflict
Highmark Health CFO Karen Hanlon says the integrated delivery system is focused on expanding some of its value-based initiatives.
Long-term care providers adopting mandates to increase workforce flu vaccination rates
A number of long-term care providers have begun imposing flu vaccination mandates on their employees in an effort to reverse years of low coverage rates.
Predictive analytics may ease the burden of flu outbreaks
Detroit Medical Center is one of the first healthcare providers to use predictive analytics to better manage influenza patients at risk of driving up medical costs.
Medicare for All bill loses its special number
Long known affectionately by its perennial bill number “676,” the U.S. House of Representatives’ Medicare for All legislation is getting a revamp this year. And a new number.
