With 2.3 million Affordable Care Act marketplace enrollees facing the choice of one insurer next year — up 2 million from 2016 — insurer pullbacks may threaten competition in nearly a third of U.S. counties.
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High-need adults — those with three or more chronic diseases and functional limitations inhibiting self-care or daily tasks — are seated with some of the highest medical costs.
Moody's Investors Service said Aetna enhanced its credit prospects after retracting from Affordable Care Act exchanges in over 500 counties, the Hartford Courant reported.
New York's essential health insurance plan helps low-income individuals purchase coverage. However, it may increase premiums for others purchasing coverage through the state's exchange, the Observer-Dispatch reports.
As the importance of care quality and patient experience continues to mount in the era of the ACA, physician practices must find ways to maximize reimbursement under value-based payment models. Shrinking patient wait times can help, according to Diagnostic Imaging.
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Police officers are typically the ones saving patients. But over the weekend at Staten Island, N.Y.-based Richmond University Medical Center, the roles were reversed.
Employees at Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Hospital are sending medical supplies to two Louisiana hospitals affected by the recent floods, according to the Times Free Press.
Across the board, 2015 was a great year for quality improvement among Pioneer accountable care organizations, but not all participants did as well financially, according to data released Thursday by CMS.
In the fourth performance year of the Medicare Shared Savings Program — 2015 — accountable care organizations generated net savings of $429 million for Medicare and improved quality performance on several different measures, according to data released Thursday by CMS.
A dose of feel good to kick off the weekend.