Chris Anderson

Insurers looking to compete in the ever-changing healthcare marketplace will continue to focus on technology in 2013 both as a means of improving payment models and partnerships with provider groups and also as the industry looks to make the transition to consumer-focused products it will offer on health insurance exchanges.

TriZetto Group's Gateway EDI subsidiary increased its customer base of healthcare providers by 50 percent with the acquisition of 10-year-old revenue cycle management and electronic transaction processing systems company ClaimLogic.

Romney's selection of Ryan immediately switched the campaign focus from the economy to the congressman's plans for radical Medicare changes.

A remote monitoring program implemented by Geisinger Health Plan using interactive voice response (IVR) and other telemonitoring technology to aid case managers has shown a 44 percent reduction in hospital readmissions.

Jimmy Farris played for the Redskins and Falcons. Now, he's looking to harness that grit in a fight for Idaho congress, and among his campaign strategies is to point out the benefits health reform has already brought to Idahoans.

With the telehealth industry now in its second decade, the number of procedures for which payers will reimburse providers is still a very short list ¬– and it isn’t growing quickly.

With the ICD-10 transition deadline now just two years away, providers and payers have finally begun tackling the project in earnest, according to a new survey from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), which shows 85 percent of organizations either planning for or implementing the new codes.

HP Enterprise Services and the Oklahoma Health Care Authority have signed a seven-year, $281 million IT and information services contract aimed at preparing SoonerCare, the state’s Medicaid program, for federal health reform mandates.

Seven entities awarded grants

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has adopted model language designed to provide guidance to individual states establishing health insurance exchanges as required under health reform.