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HealthDataManagement
5 Payer Tech Trends
Jan,27,2014
by+Staff
Consumer technology for payers continues to grow at record levels and defy expectations, according to a new white paper from Chilmark Research. With an extremely challenging macro environment due to health care reform, here are 5 trends in how payers are shifting toward the digital consumers.
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Modern Healthcare
New path to Medicare cost control
Jan,25,2014
by:+Andis Robeznieks
Move over accountable care. A new contender for controlling Medicare costs has entered the arena. The Better Care, Lower Cost Act of 2014, introduced this month by Democratic and Republican sponsors in the House and Senate, offers an innovative path for the future of Medicare.
Under the bill, Medicare would cap payments for the sickest beneficiaries who enter the program, but set the cap high enough to fund teams that can focus on strategies that reduce hospital admissions and keep overall costs under the cap. It is, in essence, a shared-savings program—even though that term does not appear in the bill.
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Med City News
For hospitals, the Affordable Care Act means “right-sizing” healthcare
Jan,26,2014
by:+ Stephen T. Watson
Hospitals are on the frontline in the federal government's campaign to rein in sky-high costs while improving the quality of care under the Affordable Care Act, often coping with more requirements and less money. Federal health-care reform is encouraging reimbursement experiments aimed at replacing the traditional fee-for-service model with one that is outcome-driven.
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HealthDataManagement
New Insurance Selection Help for the Chronically Ill and Disabled
Jan,23,2014
by:+Joseph Goedert
The National Health Council, a coalition of advocacy groups serving individuals with chronic diseases and disabilities as well as their family caregivers, has launched a Web site to aid health consumers in understanding and selecting insurance coverage from health insurance exchanges.
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