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DTCC saves money, improves clinical measures and prevention
Pharmacists have taken on a greater presence on the healthcare team in programs such as the...
Alternative to HRAs: Using microsegmentation to reach at-risk patients
Tobacco and food companies find potential customers by using demographic and consumer attitude...
Health plans need to prepare for climate change threats
A new regulation will require health insurers to think about climate change and how it could affect...
Aetna study: CDHP patients do not put off preventive care
Whenever there is talk about consumer-directed health plans (CDHP), the recurring questions revolve...
PBM sale highlights dilemma for health plans
In a move that will rocket Express Scripts to the upper reaches of the pharmacy benefit management...
Reports show benefits, problems with public option
A leading proponent of creating a public insurance option recently released a 27-page report that...

Stimulus law makes changes to HIPAA
The $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 pushes healthcare into a new era of...
Employers concerned about future of health benefits
Healthcare costs are expected to stay steady for the third straight year in 2009, but that news is...
Member experience has direct correlation to plan satisfaction
Health plan members list coverage, benefits, and provider choice as the top factors in whether they...
Three types of alignment for better payer-provider relations
: HCPro recently published The New Era of Healthcare: Practical Strategies for Providers and...

Study shows difficulties in coordinating care
Saving money and reducing hospitalizations in the chronic care population is difficult, but more...
Health plans, physicians disagree on healthcare
Health plan executives believe quality improvement initiatives, pay for performance (P4P...
VBID may have a place in healthcare reform
Policymakers looking for ways to cut healthcare costs and improve patient outcomes may have a...
Quality, positive ROI not mutually exclusive
Evidence-based interventions that improve quality are more likely to bring positive return on...
What's important to hospitals, employers differ
How much health insurers pay is important to hospital executives, but it pales in comparison to...

Employers raising PPO deductibles to offset costs
The line between PPOs and consumer-driven health plans (CDHP) has become increasingly blurred as...
CIGNA trumpets lower costs, better prevention in CDHP
Members in the organization’s CDHP, called CIGNA Choice Fund, cost less than those in PPOs...
Good health = good business
Whether a business succeeds or fails could depend as much on a company’s wellness culture and...
Patient alerts improve compliance
ActiveHealth Management, a New York City–based health management services company that offers...
Poor risk contract results not common
Skeptical physician groups often say poor risk contract financial performance is the reason they...

CMS: MHS did not save money or improve health
The second interim report of the Medicare Health Support (MHS) project was not what disease...
Health Dialog implements what it learned from MHS
As one of the leaders in disease management (DM), Boston-based Health Dialog knows how to reach and...
Chronic illness self-management puts patient in charge
The one who controls an individual’s healthcare is not the doctor, the health plan, or...
Technology lends a hand
The year 2008 was a tough one for disease management (DM). The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Grassroots programs tackle healthcare problems
A BlueCross BlueShield Association (BCBSA) program is using a bottom-up approach in hopes that a...
MGMA confirms costs outpace revenues
A recent report from MGMA confirms that operating costs are rising faster than revenue in many...
Low reimbursement depresses compensation
With their reimbursement rates often driven by Medicaid, pediatricians are among the lowest paid of...

Workplace wellness stretches across globe
Businesses devise programs for myriad reasons Unlike U.S. companies, which implement wellness...
Consumer-driven plans creating cost-conscious consumers
But many CDHP members are unaware of price, quality information Consumer-directed health plan...
More than one in five U.S. adults at lower activation levels
Those who are activated in their health are more apt to stay current on their medications, more...
High demand, increased procedures drive compensation
Overall growth remains steady, but pay for new urologists climbs dramatically Urology remains...
DMAA’s report expands further into population health
As population health programs grow across the industry, experts expect employers and health plans...