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Navigating the Upcoming 2019 CMS Enrollment Changes

With the Medicare Annual Open Enrollment (AEP) already in motion (October 15, 2018 to December 7, 2018), it’s important to […]

Blockchain is proving itself for real-world healthcare applications

Experts from IEEE, UC San Diego and Health Linkages say the key is to make sure it’s the “right solution […]

Building the Healthcare System of the Future

Medicare Advantage gets supplemental benefits flexibility, including for transport

MA plans must still offer all enrollees uniform benefits, premiums and cost sharing. “Under the bipartisan budget deal signed by […]

Three reasons telemedicine will grow in 2017

6 things keeping CIOs up at night

CIOs are acutely aware of the security complications medical devices and telehealth bring. “Last month, LexisNexis brought together 30 high-level […]

How Payers Could Assist Primary Care Docs with Value-Based Care

AHIP asks CMS to change Medicare Advantage payment formula

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should update its county benchmark calculation in the 2019 final notice being published […]

Key Challenges and Solutions of Healthcare Payment Reform

Better choices needed to manage US healthcare cost growth, says Paul Krugman at HIMSS18

Economist Paul Krugman says more scrutiny on elective procedures could contribute to a long-term solution. “Though the U.S. still has the […]

Predictive analytics can spot patients not taking their medicine

While the U.S. spends billions of dollars developing new therapeutics, those investments won’t do much good if the drugs aren’t […]

Commercial/Private Health Plan Solutions

Consumers open to more digital health use, survey finds

Consumers are also using a wider array of digital health tools, according to the survey, which found a three-fold increase […]

CMS offering $30 million in grant funding to improve quality measures

The funding is to develop partnerships with health systems, clinicians and others to improve measures in the quality payment program […]

A Healthy Start to the Plan Year Begins With Quality Medicare Advantage Enrollment Processes

For individuals who have Medicare, they have recently had the opportunity to enroll in a 2018 Medicare Advantage or other […]

The Next Obamacare Battleground: Subsidies For Out-Of-Pocket Costs

Reducing healthcare costs not one-size-fits-all, report finds

A new Network for Regional Healthcare Improvement (NRHI) report that reviewed healthcare costs for five states found huge differences concerning […]

Three reasons telemedicine will grow in 2017

Biggest Health IT wins for new spending bill

HIMSS Senior Director of Congressional Affairs broke down how the massive spending bill will boost telehealth, Medicaid and other crucial […]