2018

HealthAxis Group to exhibit at TIPAAA 24th Annual National Meeting

HealthAxis Group to exhibit at The Independent Physician Association of America’s 24th Annual National Meeting Location: Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Orlando FL […]

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 for the […]

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 the president […]

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 executives, most […]

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 April 2. […]

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 highest healthcare […]

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 taken as […]

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 in mobile […]

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 of MACRA. […]

HealthAxis Group to exhibit at TIPAAA 23rd Annual National Meeting

HealthAxis Group to exhibit at The Independent Physician Association of America’s 23rd Annual National Meeting Location: Harrah’s Hotel & Casino, New Orleans, […]