Headlines – Page 341 – Healthy Skeptic

Aug 20 2013

ptD

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Average Medicare Part D bids for 2014 apparently are over 4.5% lower than similar bids for this year, likely leading to lower premiums for most beneficiaries.

Aug 19 2013

ipg

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IPG, which helps health plans manage medical device use and costs, raised an additional $10 million.

Aug 17 2013

prov

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Providers are not happy that the reform law may require them to provide services for up to three months for patients who haven’t paid their premiums, and the providers would have little chance of collecting from the patients.

Aug 17 2013

fb

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Fitbit received $43 million in additional financing for its mobile health tracking devices and software.

Aug 17 2013

nav

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The Administration is spending $67 million in grants to states for “navigators” for the wonderful new reform law that keeps having to have various parts delayed to avoid its flaws becoming obvious.

Aug 17 2013

cc

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CareCloud, a provider of EHR and practice management software, has raised an additional $9 million for continued expansion.

Aug 17 2013

ch

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Change Healthcare, a maker of health care price transparency and other tools, has raised an additional $15 million in financing.

Aug 14 2013

con

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A study in the Journal of Health Economics finds that consumers have a very poor understanding of how the benefits work in their insurance coverage, particularly the deductibles and other cost-sharing features.

Aug 12 2013

app

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My FitnessPal raised about $18 million in additional capital, with Kleiner Perkins as the lead investor, for its online dieting plan application.

Aug 12 2013

np

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An analysis finds that executive pay at nonprofit hospital systems and health plans continues to rise and is often in the multi-millions of dollars of year and includes the kinds of perks usually reserved for public company CEOs. This disgraceful trend is part of the reason hospital and health costs are so high.