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Excellus BCBS Sending Refund Checks to Some Customers – Rochester, News, Weather, Sports, and Events14 Feb 2012
Some Excellus BlueCross BlueShield customers are receiving refund checks because they were either overcharged or had their claims denied. A... Continue Reading
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Indiana health exchange taps AT&T to scale up14 Feb 2012
Billed as the nation’s largest health information exchange organization, the Indiana HIE (IHIE) is poised to scale up and to... Continue Reading
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UPMC Leans On Business Intelligence For Accountable Care14 Feb 2012
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are all the rage in healthcare as providers look to focus more on quality than on... Continue Reading
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CIOs Need To Engage Docs In ICD-10 Transition14 Feb 2012
Healthcare systems preparing for the ICD-10 transition are still not devoting enough attention to preparing physicians for the clinical documentation... Continue Reading
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Cigna CEO Proud to Join Industry in Fighting Obesity through Nationwide School Program14 Feb 2012
Cigna CEO David Cordani today joined with ChildObesity180 and 12 other health plans to kick off a competition among the... Continue Reading
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Humana unit Concentra buys Chicago-area practice14 Feb 2012
Texas-based Concentra, a subsidiary of Louisville-based Humana Inc. , has acquired a primary-care practice near Chicago. Concentra purchased Mid America... Continue Reading
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WellPoint Named “Top 50 Company for Executive Women” by National Association for Female Executives14 Feb 2012
WellPoint, Inc, today was named one of the Top 50 Companies for Executive Women by the National Association for Female... Continue Reading
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UnitedHealthcare Completes XLHealth Acquisition14 Feb 2012
UnitedHealthcare has completed its acquisition of XLHealth Corporation, XLHealth a sponsor of Medicare Advantage health plans with a primary focus... Continue Reading
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Newt Gingrich on health IT: Then, now and the time between08 Feb 2012
Newt Gingrich, the self-proclaimed “big ideas candidate,” still in the running for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, has a history... Continue Reading
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What Are Accountable-Care Organizations, and Will They Improve Health Care?08 Feb 2012
It’s often said that the main method of paying health-care providers—with a fee for each service—results in increased and wasteful... Continue Reading
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