West Virginia's Medicaid program may be expanding its managed care system for more of its beneficiaries, according to a Bluefield Daily Telegraph report.
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Approximately 3,500 members of the Service Employees International Union in St. Paul and Minneapolis will vote today on whether to authorize a strike that could last up to five days, according to a Minnesota Public Radio report.
The 2006 Massachusetts healthcare reform law did not significantly reduce overall heart attack readmission rates or reduce gaps in readmission rates between minorities and whites, according to an analysis presented at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes…
Pittsburgh-based West Penn Allegheny Health System (pdf) recorded a net loss of $19.8 million in the third quarter, yet another red quarter in its financially turbulent 2012 fiscal year.
State Judge B.C. Drumm Jr. dismissed Molina Healthcare's lawsuit against Missouri's Medicaid program, saying the managed care provider has no legal grounds to delay the state's Medicaid contracts, according to a St. Louis Post-Dispatch report.
Oakland-based Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and their subsidiaries recorded net income of $770 million in the first quarter of 2012, a 16.4 percent drop compared with the $921 million in the same period of 2011.
Christopher Olivia, MD, former president and CEO of Pittsburgh-based West Penn Allegheny Health System, received $7.4 million in total compensation, benefits and severance in 2010 — his last year as the chief of the financially beleaguered health system, according to…
Professional services firm Towers Watson announced it will acquire Extend Health — the operator of the largest private Medicare exchange in the United States — for $435 million, less net debt and certain transaction costs.
Hospitals may find it beneficial to increase the role of public relations and marketing in their benefit-reporting process, especially as regulatory and governmental officials place increased scrutiny on hospitals' non-profit statuses.
CMS issued a final rule (pdf), establishing that health insurers that meet or exceed medical loss ratio standards must issue a straightforward notice to all policyholders for the 2011 MLR reporting year, which is this July.