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Zeroing in on best procurement practices | Supply chain execs discuss strategies for savings on physician-preference items
By Modern Healthcare | October 12, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Modern Healthcare's editorial webinar“Cost Saving in Device Procurement: Innovative Strategies on Physician Preference Items” explored...
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Doctors, patients scramble to determine effects of UnitedHealthcare's smaller network
By Hartford (Conn.) Courant | October 11, 2013
Doctors, patients and Medicare advocates scrambled this week to determine how they are affected by UnitedHealthcare's decision to eliminate thousands of doctors from its physician network for Medicare Advantage next year.
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UnitedHealthcare cuts doctors from Medicare Advantage network
By Hartford (Conn.) Courant | October 09, 2013
Thousands of doctors in Connecticut are being dropped from UnitedHealthcare's Medicare Advantage plans next year. A UnitedHealthcare spokesman confirmed the cuts but said he did not have an exact number of doctors affected.
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Consumers paying more out-of-pocket, despite slow healthcare spending growth
By Melanie Evans | September 24, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Health spending by privately insured patients increased 4% last year, with households picking up more of the cost, new data show.
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Some employers penalizing workers for e-cigarette use
By Steven Ross Johnson | August 29, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A growing number of employers, including UPS and Wal-Mart Stores, have decided that electronic cigarettes are an unhealthy habit and are imposing tobacco-use penalties on employees who use them.
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Embracing ACOs | Private insurers forge string of provider deals for accountable care
By Melanie Evans | August 10, 2013 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
In a growing number of contracts with providers, private health insurers are embracing accountable care, which holds providers jointly responsible for controlling costs and improving outcomes.
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Reform Update: Public health organizations work to prepare providers for Medicaid expansion
By Steven Ross Johnson | July 30, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Three leading public health organizations have announced plans to partner in a project aimed at helping the nation's healthcare providers prepare for the 2014 expansion of Medicaid coverage.
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Cigna to require counseling prior to some genetic tests
By Jaimy Lee | July 25, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Cigna Corp. will begin requiring patients who are at risk for breast cancer, colorectal cancer syndromes or Long QT syndrome and are considering genetic testing to first receive genetic counseling.
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Seton ACO enters contract with UnitedHealthcare
By Modern Healthcare | June 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Seton Health Alliance entered an accountable care contract with UnitedHealthcare that the organizations said could extend the reach of the Seton ACO to as many as 320,000 Texans covered by the insurer's employer-sponsored plans.
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Reform Update: Panel queries AHIP, Blues Association about Sebelius' fundraising
By Jessica Zigmond | May 24, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
America's Health Insurance Plans is among the latest set of organizations that the House Energy and Commerce Committee is questioning in what has become an expanded probe of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' fundraising efforts to help implement the 2010 healthcare reform law.
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