National Medicaid enrollment and spending growth are expected to rise in fiscal year 2014, driven by improving economic conditions and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation report.
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Maine Superintendent of Insurance Eric Cioppa has decided Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield cannot make customers in the state change healthcare providers under a new, narrow-network insurance plan, according to a Portland Press Heraldreport.
Health insurer WellPoint is turning to narrow provider networks to prepare for industry changes in 2014, according to an analysis conducted by market intelligence provider HealthLeaders-InterStudy.
Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif., has created a provider network with SCAN Health Plan, a nonprofit Medicare Advantage insurer that operates mostly in California, according to a North Bay Business Journal report.
The American Hospital Association has updated its Medicare hospital payment calculators for value-based purchasing, readmissions reduction and disproportionate share hospitals for fiscal year 2014 based on a CMS correction notice.
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The American Hospital Association is asking hospitals to submit data to its RACTrac survey, which the AHA conducts quarterly to assess how Medicare recovery audit contractors affect hospitals. AHA created the web-based survey because of the lack of data from…
Health Choice, the health insurance subsidiary of Franklin, Tenn.-based IASIS Healthcare, has launched several plan options on Arizona's health insurance exchange.
Health insurer Viva Health and Baptist Health System — both based in Birmingham, Ala. — have partnered to offer a new Medicare Advantage HMO plan, Viva Medicare Me, according to a report from The Birmingham News.
Florida Hospital in Orlando has opened an insurance office in Ormond Beach, Fla., to provide the public with information about its new health plans, according to a report from The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Some Kansas hospitals have said the state's decision earlier this year to move its Medicaid recipients onto a flat-fee managed care program called KanCare has led to delays in treatment and reimbursement, according to a report from The Topeka-Capital Journal.