New Medicare model for paying doctors passes key test
BY LAUREN CLASON, THE HILL EXTRA - 04/13/17 03:00 PM EDT A far-reaching Medicare payment proposal cleared a crucial hurdle this week, as the federal health program seeks to reward…
UnitedHealth Bets on Medicare, Medicaid After Obamacare Exit
Bloomberg News -Zachary Tracer- April 18, 2017, 8:27 AM PDT UnitedHealth Group Inc. is doing well doing business with the U.S. government. Just not in Obamacare. The company has added more…
Major Changes May Be Coming to Medicare
Published: Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:19 p.m. CDT • Updated: Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:19 p.m. CDT By Trudy Lieberman, Rural Health News Service What’s going to happen to Medicare?…
One in four U.S. consumers have had their personal medical information stolen
The Accenture study also finds that half of these victims were subject to medical identity theft and on average had to pay $2,500 in out-of-pocket costs per incident. Healthcare IT…
After Two Megadeals Blocked, Health Insurers Plot Next Moves
Bloomberg- by Zachary Tracer , David McLaughlin , and Andrew M Harris February 8, 2017, 4:05 PM PST February 9, 2017, 2:37 PM PST After 18 months of courtship and court…
