In a letter to the House of Representatives, the American Hospital Association laid out its recommendations for improvements that can be made to the Medicare Advantage program.
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The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act instituted major changes to providers' payment models and increased the need for strong coordination among healthcare organizations.
Managed care organization Philadelphia-based Health Partners Plans selected Eric Huss to serve as executive vice president of finance and administration.
Medicare Advantage enrollment has grown steadily since 2004, reaching its highest point this year, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis.
The number of Americans age 18 to 64 with a high-deductible plan increased from 26.3 percent in 2011 to 39.3 percent last year, according to a report from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
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Cincinnati-based Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Ohio will no longer sell individual coverage on the state's ACA exchange by 2018, leaving residents in at least 18 counties without an exchange option next year, Dayton Daily News reports.
King of Prussia, Pa.-based Recovery Centers of America, a provider of addiction treatment services, inked a coverage agreement with Boston-based Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts for its Danvers, Mass.-based Boston Center for Addiction Treatment.
The Court of Federal Claims upheld the U.S. Department of Defense's $58 billion military healthcare contract bids with Louisville, Ky.-based Humana and Woodland Hills, Calif.-based Health Net, rejecting Minnetonka, Minn.-based UnitedHealth Group's challenge of the deal, Law360 reports.
Unified Partners CEO Steve Doletzky said political chaos and scandal are keeping politicians from focusing on some of the issues impacting the healthcare industry.
Molina Healthcare of New Mexico, based in Albuquerque, named Daniel Sorrells its permanent president, according to an Albuquerque Business First report.