Care Coordination

Healthcare providers today face an environment of extraordinary uncertainty. From the spread of the Delta variant to the growing labor shortage, the strains on the nation’s healthcare system are unlike anything we’ve seen in the past 50 years. During a…

Often dismissed as a minor inconvenience for patients, emergency department crowding is actually an important indicator of the U.S. healthcare system's functioning, eight emergency medicine physicians wrote in a commentary published Sept. 28 in NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery.

Ambetter Health Marketplace Insurance is bringing its coverage to New Jersey as it enters the state for the first time.

Humana and Houston-based Kelsey-Seybold Clinic have signed an agreement to bring the provider's over 500 physicians in-network for Medicare Advantage HMO plan enrollees. 

Nearly three months after their last contract expired, Anthem and Mountain View, Calif.-based El Camino Health signed a three-year agreement last week.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous influence on surgical services, which is one of the most critical financial engines for hospitals and ASC’s.

CMS gave Nashville, Tenn.-based Clover Health the go-ahead to expand into 101 new counties between five states — including Alabama, which it will be entering for the first time. 

Truli for Health, a Florida Blue affiliate, is launching as a new health maintenance organization in collaboration with Pensacola, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care. 

Anthem and Hartford (Conn.) HealthCare are chartering a new value-based healthcare agreement. 

Two people suffered minor injuries after a fire broke out at St. John's Episcopal Hospital in New York City on Sept. 10, according to The New York Times.