Category
Insurance
-
Study indicates better health savings account ‘literacy’ needed
For the purpose of this blog post, let’s leave aside the decade-plus ideological fight about whether health savings accounts (HSAs)…
-
President’s Corner: Stark reflects on conference, latest AHCJ developments
Health Journalism 2015 made me smarter. I’ll give two examples. First, there was the pleasure of listening to Abraham Verghese,…
-
Conservatives yet to rally around specific ACA reform proposal
Guy Boulton, a veteran health reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, took a look at some of the conservative health…
-
Beware of hype about how consumers will benefit when health insurers merge
One important question to ask about any health insurance merger is how will the deal will affect the local market.…
-
Acronyms, health care and the poor: Understanding hospital safety net payments
The months-long controversy between Florida and the federal Medicaid program over funding for hospitals and clinics that serve uninsured low-income…
-
Three CMS proposals would shift basis of payments from volume to value
Announcements from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services last week on rules about bundled payments for hip and knee…
-
Health insurance discrimination persists for those with HIV, cancer and other conditions, despite ACA
Over the past two years, patient advocacy groups, researchers and consultants have said health insurers have discriminated against their members…
-
Indiana using telemedicine consults to integrate mental health, primary care
Indiana is embarking a new way to deliver mental health care to Medicaid members. John Wernert, M.D., a psychiatrist who…
-
Aetna has questions to answer regarding offer to buy Humana
Any health insurance company that seeks to buy another insurer will have some tough questions to answer. So, after Aetna…
-
•
Fellowship allows journalist to dig into what drives oncologists out of private practice
Any health care journalist covering the business side of physician practices knows that doctors in private practice often struggle. Health…