This Week's Healthcare-Online News
Fierce Health Payer
Only 2% of insurers cover mandated essential health benefits
Mar,9,2013
by+ Dina Overland
Very few insurers--only 2 percent--offer all the benefits they will be required to provide next year under the reform law, according to a new analysis from technology company HealthPocket.
Based on an analysis of 11,100 private health insurance plans available for individuals and families, HealthPocket determined insurers will need to to bridge a "significant gap" between now and January to ensure they're providing all the reform law's mandated essential health benefits.
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services outlined the specific essential health benefits insurers must cover in the file rule issued last month.
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Modern Healthcare.com
As D.C. waits for a new panel to explore how to pay for long-term care, Medicaid is bearing the brunt
Mar,9,2013
by:+Jessica Zigmond
As a former investment banker, Henry Purchase was no stranger to paperwork. But even with that professional background, Purchase said, he was not prepared for—nor did he fully understand—the mounds of forms and myriad regulations he sorted through when he moved his mother, Dorothy, into a nursing home nearly a decade ago.
And the administrative headaches were just one small part of what Purchase experienced during that process. For years, he and his wife paid someone to care for his aging mother so she could live with them. In the beginning, the service was for four to five hours a day. Then, as Dorothy's dementia worsened, her caregiver's hours increased to 12 hours a day, seven days a week, at a rate of $15 an hour.
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Med City News
3 ways for brands to create groundbreaking mobile experiences
Mar,9,2013
By:+Carin van Vuuren
It’s no secret that smartphones are overwhelmingly the most popular and fastest growing mobile access point to the Internet today. Just recently we learned that by the end of this year, mobile devices will outnumber the amount of people on earth, and by 2017, there will be over 10 billion mobile-connected devices. So how does this influence the future of mobile development?
As consumer behavior continues to trend towards mobile as the primary channel for customer engagement, the stakes have clearly been raised for brands. Increasingly, brands need to offer tailored mobile experiences that are relevant, add tangible value, and meet users goals in the journey.
The early evolution of mobile was centered around optimizing a desktop site for mobile, but with rising consumer expectations, a fresh approach is needed. Here are three ways brands can ensure a compelling mobile experience.
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Fierce Health IT
The idea of virtual doctor visits is growing on us
mar,7,2013
by:+Susan D. Hall
Consumers are growing more comfortable with virtual doctor visits, with 70 percent of U.S. patients open to the idea, according a global survey by technology vendor Cisco.
The survey compared the views of consumers and healthcare decision-makers in 10 countries on sharing personal health data, in-person medical consultation versus remote care and using technology to make recommendations on personal health. The views of 1,547 consumers and 403 practitioners in the United States are broken out in an infographic.
Overall, healthcare practitioners were more willing to share personal and private information than consumers.
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