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DENVER, Oct 13, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — The TriZetto Group noted with interest a Health Affairs article in July reporting that national healthcare spending was expected to increase from 17.6 percent in 2010 to 19.8 percent in 2020, as economic recovery spurs higher utilization and an estimated 30 million additional people receive health insurance coverage [...]
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PITTSBURGH–(BUSINESS WIRE)–HealthAmerica and Preferred Primary Care Physicians (Preferred) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have launched a new pilot program with the goal of providing more coordinated and patient-centered primary care and improved communications among patients, their physicians and their care team. “HealthAmerica will play an important role because of the data we track on quality measures, which [...]
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WASHINGTON – The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) released a comprehensive, interconnected action plan that fundamentally transforms the healthcare system, moving it away from a fee-for-service model to a patient-centered model. The action plan, Building Tomorrow’s Healthcare System: The Pathway to High-Quality, Affordable Care in America, provides specific recommendations to improve healthcare quality and [...]
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September 28, 2011 - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today launched a new initiative made possible by the Affordable Care Act to help primary care practices deliver higher quality, more coordinated and patient-centered care. Under the new initiative, Medicare will work with commercial and state health insurance plans to offer additional support [...]
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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP), and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) announced today a joint effort to offer a nationwide private exchange and defined contribution solution for employers to use in managing their health benefit offerings. The three independent health insurers have [...]
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced a new initiative to help improve care for patients while they are in the hospital and after they are discharged. Doctors, hospitals, and other health care providers can now apply to participate in a new program known as the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement [...]
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COLORADO SPRINGS, CO and ST. LOUIS – August 18, 2011 – To reinforce the importance of engaging a community to lower health care costs and improve health and economic sustainability, the Center for Health Value Innovation (CHVI) has chronicled the efforts of three Colorado Springs employers that worked together to change how they were contracting for [...]
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WASHINGTON—In the 10 years that consumer-driven health plans (CDHPs) have existed they have tended to attract participants who are better educated, healthier, and have higher incomes than people in traditional health plans, according to a new report by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI). But in recent years, the income differences have begun to narrow. For instance, EBRI [...]
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LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill., June 2, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Employers are beginning to rely more on employees to stem the tide of rising health care costs, but the inability to motivate and change habits has prompted concern, according to Aon Hewitt, the global human resource consulting and outsourcing business of Aon Corporation (NYSE: AON). Aon Hewitt surveyed [...]
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NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MagnaCare, a health plan services company with national reach, announces the release of a White Paper significant to the health care industry and reform efforts nationwide: “The New Face of Chronic Care Management” explores the new paradigm of chronic care management in which coordinated specialty care helps to prevent minor health problems from [...]
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