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Vertical integration is all the rage in healthcare these days, with Aetna, Cigna and Humana making notable plays.  If the proposed CVS-Aetna, Cigna-Express Scripts and Humana-Kindred deals are cleared by regulators, the tie-ups will have...
In 2012, I chaired a Dr. Robert Bree Collaborative(www.breecollaborative.org) workgroup that created obstetrics care recommendations,(www.breecollaborative.org) including pay-for-performance metrics for delivery care of patients covered...
Government and other scientists are proposing a new way to define Alzheimer's disease — basing it on biological signs, such as brain changes, rather than memory loss and other symptoms of dementia that are used today. The move...
The Trump administration on Monday rewrote rules for health plans sold through Affordable Care Act marketplaces, tilting control over insurance standards from the federal government to states and handing Americans new ways to avoid...
WASHINGTON, DC – The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC), a leading primary care advocacy organization, today announced that Bill Kramer, the Executive Director for National Health Policy at the Pacific Business Group on...
A couple of years ago, the health insurance exchange in Minnesota – MNsure – was in deep trouble. Health insurance premiums for individual policies had shot up by as much as 67 percent, among the steepest increases in the country. ...
Is the doctor in? In this new medical age of urgent care centers and retail clinics, that’s not a simple question. Nor does it have a simple answer, as primary care doctors become increasingly scarce. “You call the doctor’s office to...
Voters rank health care as the top issue heading into this year’s midterm elections, according to a HuffPost/YouGov poll released Friday. More registered voters picked health care as the top issue than any other topic when asked to pick...
Baltimore, MD (April 05, 2018) - CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield (CareFirst), the region’s largest not-for-profit insurer, plans to award $1.5 million over two years to programs increasing access to substance use disorder services –...
A new report shows large employers spent $2.6 billion to treat opioid addiction and overdoses in 2016, an eightfold increase since 2004. More than half went to treat employees' children.
Saturdays at Mercy Medical Center used to be perversely lucrative. The dialysis clinic across the street was closed on weekends. That meant the downtown Baltimore hospital would see patients with failing kidneys who should have gone to...
Facebook has asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project. Facebook was intending to match it up with user data it had collected...
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative’s mission is to promote primary care to achieve the quadruple aim.   A key strategy to achieve this mission is the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) which  has been widely adopted across...
While the U.S. and English health systems are significantly different, both countries are currently working toward better integrating health services, improving population health, and managing health care costs. And both countries are...
Walmart Inc. is in talks with health insurer Humana Inc. for a closer partnership to provide healthcare to consumers at home and prevent illness, according to a person familiar with the matter. Healthcare spending accounted for...
WASHINGTON, March 28, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- A group of leading healthcare organizations have joined together to form Aligning for Health (AFH), a coalition seeking to improve health outcomes and lower the cost of care by developing a path...
March 27, 2018 02:42 pm News Staff – The budget bill that Congress passed and President Trump signed March 23 as the clock ran down on federal funding supports important primary care initiatives, but leaves one important patient need...
Congress intended to legislate a “permanent” doc fix as part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). However, substantial questions have been raised about the original design and long term sustainability of the...
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said Wednesday it is "extremely disappointing" that a bill she backed to stabilize ObamaCare markets was left out of a must-pass government funding bill.  
For the second consecutive year, total payments to care for individuals living with Alzheimer’s or other dementias will surpass a quarter of a trillion dollars ($277 billion), which includes an increase of nearly $20 billion from last year...

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