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Are Medicare Advantage plans cherry picking healthier members?
Medicare Advantage plans may be indirectly cherry picking healthier seniors--and therefore decreasing their coverage costs--by offering benefits such as gym memberships, suggested a New England
Aetna to drop copays on heart attack drugs
Aetna plans to eliminate copays on drugs that help prevent heart attacks after a study showed patients took their medicines and were healthier when there were no out-of-pocket costs for their
Private sector influence not lacking in government's health IT push
While there has been plenty of grumbling about the Meaningful Use criteria for government electronic health record incentives, the Administration listened to a variety of private voices in designing
Global payments yield 'modest' savings
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts' own version of a global payment system, called the alternative quality contract (AQC), has produced "modest" savings in its first year and improved quality of
HHS mostly gets meaningful use right
In case you hadn't heard--and if you hadn't, shame on you (or good for you for taking a vacation)--the final rules for "meaningful use" of EMRs came out last week . As readers of FierceEMR know, I got
HHS dials back requirements, offers flexibility in final meaningful use rule
In releasing the final rules for Stage 1 of the "meaningful use" Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive program on Tuesday, federal officials have pulled back from the more aggressive plan outlined in
Study: Proper EHR documentation can reduce diagnosis errors
Much of the literature on medical errors has focused on medication administration and adherence to clinical guidelines for various procedures. Though misdiagnosis remains a huge problem in medicine,
CDC: More than 40 percent of docs have EMRs
There are only three types of lies: Lies, damned lies and statistics. And in the spirit of Benjamin Disraeli (or Mark Twain or whoever actually originated that phrase) comes the annual National
SPOTLIGHT: Comparative effectiveness and cost containment
Comparative effectiveness and cost reform can go hand-in-hand, as long as hospitals and health plans look first to improve efficiency in the system, rather than just blindly cutting costs across the
Study: EMR adoption rates at hospitals still near rock-bottom
Think the prospect of an IT stimulus has gotten hospitals all hot and bothered over idea of implementing EMRs? Well, not really, if a new study published by the New England Journal of Medicine is on
