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HHS Releases Health IT Strategy Draft
By Allison BellFederal health information technology planners would like to see "private payers" - health insurers - help encourage doctors and hospitals to make more use of electronic health record systems.
March 28, 2011
GAO: Broker Incentives Could Help Replace PPACA MandatePaying agents and brokers a flat fee per health plan enrollee - and extra for reeling in the uninsured - could help reduce the need for an Affordable Care Act individual health insurance ownership mandate.
March 27, 2011
Physician Quality Ruling Favors Blue Shield of CaliforniaA state court judge in Alameda County, Calif., has dismissed efforts by physicians and a state medical society to kill a Blue Shield of California physician quality recognition program.
March 25, 2011
Medicare Advantage Carrier Taps Wall StreetHealthSpring Inc. is in the process of raising at least $262 million by selling 7.5 million shares of common stock to the public.
March 25, 2011
Christopher Booth Rises at ExcellusChristopher Booth has become president of Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.
March 25, 2011
NASI: States, Exchanges Have to Divvy Up WorkStates may take at least three different approaches to splitting oversight work between health insurance exchanges and state insurance regulators, according to Lee Goldberg.
March 25, 2011
NASI: States, Exchanges Have to Divvy Up WorkStates may take at least three different approaches to splitting oversight work between health insurance exchanges and state insurance regulators, according to Lee Goldberg.
March 25, 2011
Medicare Advantage Carrier Taps Wall StreetHealthSpring Inc. is in the process of raising at least $262 million by selling 7.5 million shares of common stock to the public.