Discussing benefits and risks of low-value diagnostic testing via head CT scan with patients can reduce the prevalence of such testing.
Category: Health Insurance
Self-funded employers are playing an increasing role in taking on the status quo to lower costs
The insurance industry will remain but the traditional PPO is beginning to come to an end as costs are outstripping inflation and wages, CEO says.
Reducing wasteful spending in healthcare by curbing administrative complexity
Wasteful spending is an increasingly thorny problem in healthcare, especially with the industry comprising an ever-larger portion of GDP.
Employers Are Scaling Back Their Dependence On High-Deductible Health Plans
Firms are offering more traditional plans alongside or instead of the plans with sky-high deductibles that may have been the only option in the past. The change comes as employers are finding that workers like the predictability of a traditional plan and that providing more generous plans can help with recruiting in a tight labor market.
Employers Are Scaling Back Their Dependence On High-Deductible Health Plans
Firms are offering more traditional plans alongside or instead of the plans with sky-high deductibles that may have been the only option in the past. The change comes as employers are finding that workers like the predictability of a traditional plan and that providing more generous plans can help with recruiting in a tight labor market.
Kaiser, Oscar, Blue Cross Blue Shield plans among big winners of cost sharing reduction payments
In total, Affordable Care Act insurers in class action lawsuit will receive over $1.5 billion in damages from 2017 and 2018.
Operational efficiencies saved hospitals from further earnings decline
Mergers and acquisitions helped grow revenue but it’s taking health systems longer to realize expected synergies.
States Try A Gentler Approach To Getting Medicaid Enrollees To Work
Facing GOP pressure to install work requirements for adults getting Medicaid coverage, some states seek instead to offer more opportunities for job training.
Study finds racial bias in Optum algorithm
Optum calls the study’s conclusions “misleading” as health systems use many data elements other than cost to select patients for clinical engagement.
Amazon makes its second digital health acquisition with Health Navigator
The five-year-old Illinois company offers digital health content middleware in the form of APIs used by Microsoft, MDLive and others.
