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Excellus BCBS airs funny ads to cut avoidable ER visits
More than 40 percent of emergency room (ER) visits--amounting to 700,000 visits a year--in upstate New York are avoidable, concludes an analysis from Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield, so the insurer
Insurers encourage less-costly ER alternatives
Research shows that up to 20 percent of emergency room (ER) visits could be diverted to less-expensive retail sites, so health insurers like Anthem, UnitedHealth, and Kaiser Permanente are
Humana (NYSE: HUM) CEO explains Concentra purchase
Humana ( NYSE: HUM ) chief executive Michael McAllister explained that the insurer's interest in purchasing Concentra was primarily to get a physician-management platform it can use for such purposes
St. Vincent's, North Shore-LIJ deal falls apart
Money and religion appear to be the two biggest factors in the death of a deal that would have seen North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System move into St. Vincent's Hospital's old emergency room
Virginia Anthem Blues combines high-tech, low-tech to cut avoidable ER use
With the average total cost of an emergency room visit ($441) 4.5 times higher than the average total cost of an urgent-care center visit ($98) and almost 8.5 times higher than a retail-care clinic
