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Blues plans bundle payments for knee, hip replacements
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee has reached an agreement with four orthopedic practices across the state to use a bundled payment system for knee and hip replacements, which it hopes will help incentivize doctors to focus on quality of care.
BCBS saves $232M, cuts readmissions with patient registries
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan has helped decrease patient mortality rates, hospital readmissions, emergency department visits and surgery complications--plus saved $232 million in health
WellPoint taps IBM's Watson to diagnose, recommend treatment
WellPoint ( NYSE: WLP ) has reached an agreement with IBM to use its supercomputer Watson (recently of "Jeopardy!" fame) to help physicians diagnose medical illnesses and recommend treatment options
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
Experts share regulatory strategies for justifying rate increases
Health plans better get used to justifying their rate increases now that the Obama administration wants to review premium increases of 10 percent or more, Lynn Shapiro Snyder, senior member of
New payment models could rein in healthcare costs
Finding new ways to manage ever-increasing healthcare costs is always a hot discussion point among health payers, and AHIP Institute attendees will not be disappointed as they find several sessions
Insurers' definition of success must change
Michael McRaith, the Illinois director of insurance since 2005 and future director of the Federal Insurance Office, believes that the health insurance industry's definition of success has to change,
Administrative efficiency, value-based designs ensure economic survival
The healthcare industry is aflutter with transformation and if health plans don't properly adapt to those changes, they won't be able to compete in the new environment. That's what Lawrence Bridge,
CTIA highlights best practices for wireless data collection, remote monitoring
You know technologies are maturing when someone starts developing best practices for their use. That seems to be the case with data collection from wireless heart monitors, as evidenced by Aaron
Mobile apps popular at the point of care, but there's plenty more to come
Smartphones are so popular in medicine now that some health professionals "don't know how colleagues manage without them," C. Peter Waegemann, vice president of development for the Boston-based
