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Health Wonk Review: Business Edition
The biweekly blog carnival Health Wonk Review is up, and while many of the featured posts can tend to the academic, here are a few that may appeal specifically to BNET readers: Two different posts tackle the question of whether insurers can help restrain soaring healthcare costs....
Tags: Health Care, HealthBlawg, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-06-27
Tufts Medical-Blue Cross Ceasefire: A Grand Bargain on Quality and Cost?
The big standoff between Tufts Medical Center and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, in which Tufts threatened to cut off patients insured by the Blue unless the health-insurance outfit agreed to pay it more, is over. But the most interesting thing here may be the new contract Tufts has...
Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Patient, Hospital, Insurance Company, Health Care, Healthblawg, Healthcare, Insurance, Benefits, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2009-01-21

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Electronic Medical Records: Bad for Health?
Electronic Medical Records: Bad for Health?EHRs pros and consSome thoughts on the pros and cons, costs and benefits of EHRS:http://healthblawg.typepad.com/healthblawg/2007/11/ehrphr-pros-and.htmlAlso, on the question of who bears the cost of EHR implementation: malpractice insurers ought to pony up in the form of significant discounts to wired docs; payors ought to pony...
Tags: eHR, electronic health record, health care, insurance company, malpractice insurer
Discussion threads 2008-05-07
Healthcare Roundup: Medicare Payments Up, Prime Acquires New Hospital, Gender Bias in Health Insurance, and More
Medicare reimbursement mini-roundup -- Doctors will get a 1.1 percent bump in Medicare payments starting in January, and additional bonuses for using e-prescribing technology. Meanwhile, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will hike hospital outpatient payments by 3.6 percent, but held rates for ambulatory surgical centers flat. And CMS...
Tags: Health Insurance, Hospital, Medicare, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, David P. Hamilton
Blog posts 2008-10-31
Texas Rescinds Contract With Evercare Medicaid Service
Evercare, a unit of UnitedHealth Group, is losing its contract to provide coordinated care services to more than 74,000 elderly and disabled Medicaid patients in North Texas. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission terminated the contract, effective May 31, after many patients complained that they were having trouble accessing...
Tags: Patient, Texas, Medicaid, Health Care, Dallas Morning News, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Ken Terry
Blog posts 2009-03-19
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