Companies Test Plans to Cut Their Health Costs
At Walgreen, the giant drugstore chain, employees now have a much broader choice of insurers and plans. Once limited to two options, either from a local Blue Cross plan or …
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HME News: All-States blames audits, cuts for layoffs
All-States Medical Supply has laid off eight employees due to soaring audit rates and recent cuts in Medicare reimbursement, according to a release. When All-States won a contract as part …
National expert tells Pittsburgh providers to expect a cost crisis in cancer care
Employers and health care providers must overhaul how they prevent and fight cancer to head off an expensive crisis in treating the disease, a top national health adviser said Friday. …
Telehealth Initiative Launched in Northern California
Patients in rural northern California communities will now have faster, more convenient access to specialty care in their area thanks to a new telehealth initiative announced by the Blue Shield …
Will San Francisco hospitals cut prices, as Seattle’s Swedish did?
Swedish Health System, one of Seattle’s largest health care providers, is slashing outpatient prices dramatically, but there’s no sign yet that San Francisco hospitals are likely to follow in its …
BCBS Kansas Joins in Extending Non-Grandfathered ACA Plans
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas says it will take advantage of a shift in federal regulations and continue to allow members to keep plans that were not grandfathered under …
Nearing enrollment’s end, lots of North Carolinians still uninsured
With two weeks left to enroll in health insurance for 2014 through the Affordable Care Act, tens of thousands of uninsured residents in North Carolina could face penalties if they …
Michigan mobile health initiative aims to cut hospital costs, readmissions
Community EMS, a Southfield, Mich., ambulance and consulting company, has begun pilot testing a mobile health initiative to use paramedics and telemedicine to assess the health of chronic disease patients …