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.