Startup AbilTo aims to cut medical costs
Health IT company AbilTo has raised fresh capital for a program aimed at changing behavior for the costliest patient population — people with chronic conditions or multiple chronic conditions. The …
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Medicare to cover hospice and curative care simultaneously in new demonstration program
Medicare will reimburse both hospices furnishing palliative care and providers offering curative services under a new demonstration program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently announced. Currently, a beneficiary …
Massachusetts to dump health website contractor
Massachusetts planned to cut ties with the contractor for its hobbled health care insurance website, state officials said Monday. CGI Group, a Montreal-based information technology firm, was also the lead …
Senators Offer Bi-Partisan Bill To Give Highmark Customers Access To UPMC
In just nine months, Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield subscribers will lose low-cost access to UPMC doctors and facilities. On Monday a Republican lawmaker teamed up with his Democratic colleague to …
Congressmen Thompson And Braley Join Push To Prevent Expansion Of Medicare Bidding Program
The American Association for Homecare and the VGM Group applauded Representatives Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.) and Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) for urging the Centers for Medicare and (CMS) Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn …
HIMSS 2014: The State of Innovation in Healthcare IT
Health IT is expected to top $34.5B, yet despite pressure to innovate, the industry is quite behind in disruptive innovation. Instead what we are seeing is attempts to improve efficiencies, …
BE HEARD: Tell AAHomecare About Your Patients’ Awareness of Medicare Issues
The American Association for Homecare will soon be launching a new communications campaign designed to directly reach out to patients and rally them behind AAHomecare’s advocacy efforts. The new patient …
ABILTO Closes $6M Series B Financing
AbilTo, Inc., a New York, NY-based provider of remotely delivered, behavior interventions for high-cost medical populations, closed a $6m Series B financing. The round was led by BlueCross BlueShield Venture …