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Contributed By Elizabeth W. Boehm & Bruce D. Temkin Health plan executives are confronted by a daunting challenge – they face increasing cost pressures, more complex plan designs, ris...

WASHINGTON - Amid industry concerns, a new pay-for-performance program has been outlined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The voluntary 2007 Physician Quality Reporting Initiati...

LONG BEACH, CA – Telemedicine, long believed to have the potential for facilitating healthcare treatment, may be about to play a significant role in ambulatory settings. According to...

WASHINGTON – The number of people covered by health savings accounts or high-deductible health plans rose to 4.5 million this past January, up more than 40 percent from the previous year....

Inconsistent investments and strategies are undercutting the effectiveness of pay-for-performance initiatives in the United States, according to a recent payer-based survey on P4P programs....

LOS ANGELES – The California Heart Center Foundation implemented a standalone dashboard to monitor its productivity, financial performance and referrals from outside physicians almost a yea...

PITTSBURGH – Consolidation and economies of scale are two key reasons behind the combination of two large Blues plans in Pennsylvania. The merger, announced in late March, will form an orga...

Contributed by Mark Sedlmeier Healthcare equipment financing is surging forward to keep pace with unprecedented spending, with institutions designating more capital for equipment than ev...

WINCHESTER, VA – Hospitals dealing with patients who say they have no insurance often have trouble collecting for services after the fact. Even though some organizations may feel that pay...

Physicians are not as likely as once thought to leave their practices due to spikes in malpractice premiums, according to a new Harvard study that counted procedures rather than polled physicians....