Managed Care news and information

Post-acute providers such as nursing homes are facing the kind of managed-care growing pains hospitals experienced in the 1990s.
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Hospitals will be paid nearly the same rates by health plans sold through new state insurance exchanges as by plans sold to employers outside them, analysts and hospital system execs say.
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WellCare Health Plans, Tampa, Fla., announced on Sept. 30 that it has entered into an agreement to buy certain assets of Healthfirst Health Plan of New Jersey.
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What it does: The company develops innovative cost-efficiency strategies for Medicaid managed-care plans, commercial healthcare programs as well as self-insured employers.
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More than 56,000 low-income households in Wisconsin are expected to receive letters this week informing them that they will stop receiving Medicaid coverage at the end of the year. They will be told they can apply for federally subsidized private coverage in the state health insurance exchange,...
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's plan to extend taxpayer-paid health insurance to hundreds of thousands of the working poor came with his repeated warnings that it is not an expansion of Medicaid and that he would not expand an entitlement program that he views as already too costly, bloated and...
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DaVita HealthCare Partners, Denver, is expanding its multispecialty medical group operations into a fifth state with the acquisition of Arizona Integrated Physicians.
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Results of a study on cognitive decline found aging brains may benefit from a video game. The study, published in the journal Nature, found attention and functional memory got a boost among older adults who played a custom-designed video game.
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Casenet, a developer of care-management software, announced that CEO Kevin Brown plans to retire and that former MedQuist CEO Peter Masanotti will succeed him.
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Four of Ohio's healthcare powerhouses — including University Hospitals and Summa Health System — have forged an alliance designed to allow the institutions to share best practices as they brace for the health industry's dramatic shift from a system that pays hospitals for the amount of...
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