Healthcare price transparency initiatives, which includes providing patients, physicians, employers and policymakers more information on healthcare prices could reduce U.S. healthcare spending by an estimated $100 billion over the next decade, according to a new analysis from the Gary and Mary West Health Policy Center.
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Big Insurance Giants Partner to Provide Price Transparency Tools to Consumers
Aetna, Humana and United Healthcare have announced that it will work with the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) to develop and provide healthcare price transparency tools for consumers.
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Blueprint Health Startup Healthify Raises $500k To Address Patients’ Costly Social Needs
Blueprint Health network startup Healthify has announced that it has closed a $500,000 seed round to help insurers better address patients’ costly social health needs led by a group of angel investors.
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SAP Launches Patient Relationship Management Solution To Put Patients At Center of Individualized Care
Today, SAP AG announced the launch of the SAP® Patient Relationship Management solution, designed to help healthcare providers compete for increasingly assertive, knowledgeable and price-sensitive patients.
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90 Medical Professionals Charged in $260M False Billing Medicare Fraud
90 individuals, including 27 doctors, nurses and other medical professionals have been charged for their alleged participation in false billing Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $260 million, federal officials said on Tuesday.
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Mercy Breaks Ground on First Virtual Care Center for Telemedicine
Mercy will officially break ground on the first virtual care center for telemedicine in the U.S., marking another milestone in the health system’s promise to transform health care.
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Infographic: Is Meaningful Use Really Helping or Hurting EHR Adoption?
Only four hospitals and 50 professionals have achieved stage 2 meaningful use after seven months into the reporting period beginning on October 1,2013, according to a CMS official.
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Amy Tenderich, Founder of DiabetesMine Talks Why We Can’t Wait for Digital Health Innovation
Amy Tenderich, patient activist and founder of DiabetesMine talks why the diabetes community needs realistic and useful digital health innovation.
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StartUp Health Report: Top 12 Venture Capital Firms Funding the 50+ Market
New StartUp Health and AARP report takes a closer look at the top venture capitalists making investments that impact the 50+ population and the hottest areas of investment.
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Hospital Readmissions Fall by 8% Among Medicare Beneficiaries
HHS reports hospital readmissions falls by 8% and an estimated 150,000 fewer hospital readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries between January 2012 and December 2013.
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