Cigna expects China to surpass South Korea as its largest international business through a joint venture with China Merchant Bank, according to the South China Morning Post.
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No one knows the pitfalls of going without health insurance better than the physicians who treat uninsured patients, but some of those very doctors are so frustrated with America's healthcare system that they're abandoning their own insurance coverage, according to…
The Louisiana Health Department sent letters to 37,000 Medicaid recipients May 10 warning they are at risk of losing coverage because of the proposed budget cuts, reports Nola.com
Despite the elimination of mandatory bundled payments by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), commercial insurers are investing in this model based upon the positive results they’ve seen from the CMS demonstration models and their own trial experiences.
Nearly three-fourths (74 percent) of individuals who purchase insurance through the ACA's marketplace think $200 premiums would be an unfair price to pay each month, according to a recent eHealth survey.
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Texas physicians are raising concerns about a new BlueCross BlueShield of Texas policy that may require members who access nonemergent care at out-of-network emergency departments to pay their bills in full, according to Spectrum News Austin.
UnitedHealthcare's bundled payment program for knee, hip and spine procedures has generated about $18 million in employer savings across 115 employers.
The CEO of Nashville, Tenn.-based Envision Healthcare blamed payers for much of patients' confusion about health insurance coverage and billing processes, the Nashville Business Journal reports.
The move to value-based care is not happening tomorrow — it's here today.
New Hampshire is the latest state to win federal approval for its request to implement Medicaid work requirements, according to The Hill.