Michigan news and information

Rising premiums have driven a steady decline in employer-sponsored health insurance since 2000, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study released today.
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Most hospitals in Southeast Michigan have been working on projects to reduce readmission rates as Medicare and some private payers no longer reimburse for certain patients who are re-hospitalized within 30 days.
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House GOP leaders released a revised proposal to replace Medicare's SGR physician payment formula with a system that includes specialty-specific performance measures.
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Michigan Health Connect and Ohio's CliniSync will help physicians send medical records across the state border through encrypted e-mails. Patients from Michigan who receive medical care in Ohio—or vice versa—can have records sent to the physician providing treatment.
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The U.S. Justice Department closed its widely watched antitrust case against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, but the government is expected to continue scrutinizing how insurers use controversial “most-favored nation” pricing contracts in other states.
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Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services, the state's administrator of federal health information exchange grant funding under the stimulus law, has announced that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan has become the first health plan in the state to join as a qualified data-sharing...
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The Justice Department has closed its case against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan, but the government is expected to stay active in examining “most-favored-nation” contracts.
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Lawyers for the Justice Department and the state of Michigan have decided to drop their long-running antitrust lawsuit against Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan over controversial “most-favored nation” contracts that were recently outlawed in the state.
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Gottlieb Memorial Hospital, Melrose Park, Ill., has named Lori Price president.
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Bon Secours Health System appointed Carlos Beato CEO for Bon Secours New York Health System in Riverdale, effective April 15. Beato, 59, will replace Eileen Malo, interim CEO since March 2011. Beato joins Bon Secours from United Methodist Homes of New Jersey, where he served as...
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