Permanente Medical Groups, the multispecialty physician groups affiliated with Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, unveiled a new website Jan. 15 that aims to unify the organization's eight medical groups into one cohesive brand.
Strategy
1. Employers get serious about the underlying drivers of their healthcare costs.
In negotiations with insurers to bring down healthcare costs, employers should side with their carriers, a Blue Cross Blue Shield executive recently told a group of business leaders in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to a Dallas Morning News report.
Phoenix Children's Hospital and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona agreed to extend their current contract through Dec. 15 as they negotiate a new agreement, according to KTAR News.
Senior health clinics operated by Walgreens and Humana have been operating in Kansas City for three months, and Walgreens CEO Stefano Pessina said that he is open to expanding the project beyond a pilot if the partnership proves to be…
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Competition dropped in health insurance markets across half of states in 2017, leaving most markets highly concentrated, according to an American Medical Association study.
Commercial health insurance markets in 25 states became more concentrated from 2016-17, according to a study from the American Medical Association.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has appointed Sukanya Soderland as senior vice president and chief strategy officer.
A new report from the New England Journal of Medicine-Catalysts about trends in payer-provider integration suggests that the industry is warming up to single-payer — with 61 percent of hospital leaders saying single-payer would boost the industry’s efforts to lower…
All successful Clinically Integrated Networks (CINs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) share one important focus: Contracts with payers.