The growth in total costs for health care services is typically used by insurers to set insurance premiums. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) While costs are rising faster than inflation, the projected increase pales in comparison to the double-digit spikes seen in the early 2000s. It’s also slightly less than the 7.5% increase PwC estimated for 2013. Continue reading
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Health care costs to slow in 2014
Total costs for health care services, including everything from doctor visits and prescription drugs to surgeries, are expected to rise 6.5% in 2014, when the Affordable Care Act fully kicks in, according to a report released Tuesday. While costs are rising faster than inflation, the projected increase pales in comparison to the double-digit spikes seen in the early 2000s. It’s also slightly less than the 7.5% increase PwC estimated for 2013 Continue reading
Health care law remains deeply divisive
Published: Saturday, June 15, 2013, 9:00p.m. Updated 12 hours ago WASHINGTON David Peabody is apprehensive about the new health care law. Ericka Haverkos is hopeful about it Continue reading
7 States With the Highest Health Care Costs
While many focus on the cost of health insurance premiums, relatively little media attention is being given to the actual cost of health care itself. According to the latest data available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, the annual cost of health care in the U.S. (excluding insurance premiums) is $6,815 per person Continue reading
NOVA Medical Center Enhance Industrial Medicine Services
AUSTIN, Texas, June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — For many years, NOVA Medical Centers has been the trusted resource that other employers have relied on for all of their needs. Continue reading
Truven Health Analytics Professional Receives Accredited Health Care Fraud Investigator Credentialing
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Truven Health Analytics, formerly the Healthcare business of Thomson Reuters, announced today that Kristine Knutson, senior analytic consultant, is the latest member of the Truven Health staff to have earned the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Associations (NHCAA) unique professional credential: Accredited Health Care Fraud Investigator. Knutson joins the growing rank of Truven Health employees who have earned AHFI credentials Continue reading
Cigna's unlikely partnership to change Chinese health care
By Charles P. Wallace Ma Weihua, CEO of China Merchants Bank, and Cigna CEO David Cordani in China last year Continue reading
Cigna's unlikely to change Chinese health care
By Charles P. Wallace Ma Weihua, CEO of China Merchants Bank, and Cigna CEO David Cordani in China last year. FORTUNE — (SHANGHAI) By 8 a.m., Renji Hospital, founded in 1848 by Western missionaries and still one of China’s best medical centers, is already in a state of chaos. Continue reading
American Workers' Health Care Costs Increase Again
The family health care tab shows no sign of shrinking. On average, according to the latest Milliman Medical Index (MMI), a family of four covered through a typical employer health plan will pay out $9,144 this year in premiums and out-of-pocket expenses. That’s up about 6.5 percent over 2012, though not as much as the prior year’s increase of 7.2 percent. Continue reading
Small businesses mull health care overhaul's impact
Health care reform by Elizabeth Stawicki, Minnesota Public Radio May 13, 2013 Audio player code: ST. PAUL, Minn. Continue reading
Obama declared health care law 'is here to stay'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Caught between nervous Democrats and emboldened Republicans, President Barack Obama on Friday stepped up the sales pitch on his health care overhaul as the final elements of his top domestic achievement go into effect. Continue reading
Health Care Providers Beta Testing New URAC Accreditation for Clinical Integration
Washington, DC (PRWEB) May 08, 2013 Several organized physician groups are beta testing URACs new clinical integration accreditation program standards. URAC, an independent accreditation organization advancing quality and value throughout health care, created the new program to serve as a roadmap for health providers to achieve clinical integration and accountable care. By earning URAC accreditation, providers will demonstrate they are delivering improved patient care and reducing costs. Continue reading
Health care tax credits: Eligibility and economic impact
Ann Battenfield’s healthcare coverage has so far been expensive and inefficient. The Affordable Care Act could change her life — and the lives of millions in similar situations. WASHINGTON, May 8 — President Barack Obama made expanding the pool of insured Americans and guaranteeing coverage for those with pre-existing conditions cornerstones of his health care reform effort. Continue reading
States fear loss of health care aid
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. State officials say thousands of people with medical problems are in danger of losing coverage as the Obama administration winds down one of the earliest programs in the federal health care overhaul Continue reading
Oregon Medicaid Study Points Out Failings of U.S. Health Care
Rick Bowmer / AP Ora Botwinick examines Dahlia Arbella, 5, at the North Portland Health Center in Portland, Ore., on June 18, 2012 Among all the criticisms of President Obamas health care reform law, the most salient may be that the Affordable Care Actfocuses on access to insurance at the expense of cost and quality care. A new set of results from a study on Oregons Medicaid program supports this critique and offers a window into the broader shortcomings of the U.S Continue reading
Survey shows millions of people struggling to afford health care
Eighty-four million peoplenearly half of all working-age U.S. Continue reading
Single-payer plan is best health care solution
April 17 To the Editor: The Chidester (op-ed) correctly identifies the problems in health care today: uncontrolled costs and the rising number of uninsured. Continue reading
Joppel Website Helps Universal Health Care Medicare Members Find New Health Insurance Coverage in Wake of Recent …
ORANGE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– The recent filing for bankruptcy by Universal Health Care has left 37,500 Florida seniors scrambling to find new health insurance before their window to make a choice closes on May 31. In response, the nations premier online resource designed to help seniors select the right health insurance coverage has established a special hotline to help with this urgent need. Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Universals Medicare Advantage plans are understandably concerned about their coverage and urgently in need of a new Medicare plan, said Kyal Moody, senior vice president of Joppel. Continue reading
Brewer vetoes individual health care shopping bill
PHOENIX — Saying there are technical problems with the proposal, Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed legislation Friday which would have allowed individuals to shop around for the best price on health care needs Continue reading
The Reason Health Care Is So Expensive: Insurance Companies
As Congressional budget battles heat upor roll along, depending on your time perspectivethe cost of health care in America receives a lot of attention. Unfortunately most of the discussion is largely off the mark about where the preventable, unnecessary costs really are. Continue reading