Incentivizing preventative measures would benefit both payers and the individuals they insure, according to a new study published in the Harvard Business Review.
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During his 15 years of conducting workshops for leadership teams, Marcel Schwantes made it a habit of asking people to think about their favorite bosses and what made them so great, according to Inc. magazine.
In an open letter on the group's website, American Medical Association President David Barbe, MD, MHA, announced his organization's disapproval for the Senate's proposed healthcare bill.
Formerly robust manufacturing regions that have come to depend on health systems as primary employers fear that passage of the Senate bill will take away many jobs, according to NPR.
Lynn Stockstad, chief marketing officer at Optum, recently answered questions from Becker’s Hospital Review about the upcoming Optum Forum taking place July 31 through August 2, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
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Senate Republicans amended the Better Care Reconciliation Act Monday to include a provision that would replace the ACA's individual mandate, The New York Times reports.
The Congressional Budget Office scored the financial impact of the Senate's Better Care Reconciliation Act, finding minor improvements in health insurance coverage and significant improvements in federal savings compared to the House's ACA replacement, the American Health Care Act.
Carol A. Friesen stepped into her role as chair of the Healthcare Financial Management Association's board of directors.
HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, said the Senate healthcare bill "provide[s] Americans with much needed relief from Obamacare" in a June 22 statement. He hailed the proposal for protecting patients, bringing down the cost of insurance coverage and expanding healthcare…
During an appearance on This Week Sunday, White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said that those who may lose Medicaid coverage under a new healthcare bill don’t deserve coverage because they should be working anyway, according to Fortune.