Indiana's plan to expand its Medicaid program could end up costing the state billions more than expected and have a long-term negative effect on its economy, Naomi Lopez Bauman, director of health policy at the Illinois Policy Institute, writes in…
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The most important quality physicians look for in an insurer is its reimbursement rate, according to a recent Medscape study of more than 6,300 physicians across 25 specialties.
Jeffrey A. Singer, MD — a general surgeon in Phoenix — has noticed more and more of his patients are being forced off their private insurance plans to be placed on Medicaid when they sign up for coverage on Healthcare.gov,…
Two American healthcare workers who were exposed to Ebola at their place of employment have tested positive for the virus. The question is, will they receive workers' compensation for contracting the virus?
After offering some of the lowest premiums in the country in 2014, Golden Valley, Minn.—based insurer PreferredOne will be increasing premiums substantially on 2015 individual market plans, according to a StarTribune report.
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Insurers play a huge role in the professional lives of physicians but working together isn't always easy, according to the Medscape Insurer Ratings Report 2014.
A loophole in the official calculator developed by HHS to approve or reject health plans allowed large companies to offer their employees health plans for 2015 that didn't include hospital coverage, according to a Washington Post report.
Only 11 percent of the uninsured are aware that the next open enrollment period for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act exchanges starts next month, according to a Kaiser Health Tracking poll.
Hospitals have until October 31, 2014, to consider CMS' offer to settle pending appeals of denied Medicare claims for 68 percent of the net allowable amount. All acute-care hospitals and critical access hospitals with pending appeals are eligible for this…
The California Office of the Patient Advocate has released assessments of numerous health plans based on select clinical services, according to a Kaiser Health News report.