Healthcare plans

The goal is to avoid traditional time-consuming tasks of communicating via fax, mail, email, courier and web portals, while reducing costs and speeding processes.

Progress toward a value-based care reimbursement system is slow, with clinicians hampered by a lack of information technology that could help them, according to a new survey of healthcare executives.

The move could reignite speculation that the two companies will forge a closer partnership.

Responses should demonstrate how similar customers solved the same business challenges in a hosted environment.

Combining claims and clinical data provides better understanding of health ‘in real time,’ says data director Colt Courtright.

Selection of Atul Gawande, MD, to lead the new healthcare firm will advance innovation and change, says AHIP’s Matt Eyles.

Atul Gawande, MD, who has written extensively about the U.S. failure to grapple with healthcare spending, will lead the new initiative.

Several insurers in Maryland and Virginia are seeking double-digit percentage increases in monthly costs for individual medical plans in 2019.

The proposed Walmart-Humana combination is the latest of a series of moves that point to an abrupt change in the industry.

Retailer and insurer reportedly explored a wide range of options, including a merger.

Insurance payments will increase by double-digit percentages for Obamacare plans in most states next year.

The bill eliminates a tax penalty for Americans who don’t carry health insurance, a pillar of the Affordable Care Act.

An announcement could come as soon as Monday, less than a year after two major health insurance deals fell apart amid antitrust challenges.

Insurer teams with Castlight Health to offer an integrated solution that brings together clinical, claims and wearables data.

A bipartisan deal to shore up Obamacare exchanges has “stalled out,” a top Senate Republican said Wednesday.

The move is politically risky as it may force bipartisan effort in the Senate to craft legislation to shore up the ACA insurance exchanges.

More than eight in ten individuals who buy ACA plans also get help paying their premiums directly from the federal government.

The President opted for an executive order signed Thursday after he was unable to rally Republicans to overturn the health law.

Healthcare organizations such as Allina Health are working more closely with carriers to ensure that patient information is shared to improve care and reduce costs.

President slams ‘so-called’ Republicans after Senate leadership kills healthcare vote.