Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JULY 31, 2024

The insurer shrank its plan footprint for 2025 in a bid to improve margins. Now, Humana is giving market watchers loose guidance into how that reduction could affect its enrollment along with second quarter results.

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Insurance 134

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Only 25% of Humana members will be in plans with four stars or above next year, down from 94% this year, the insurer disclosed Wednesday. The downgrade could wipe out Humana’s profits in 2026.

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Insurance 116

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

AUGUST 7, 2024

Insurers cited workforce shortages, hospital consolidation and growing demand for pricey GLP-1 drugs as reasons driving the premium increases for 2025.

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Insurance Hospital 106

CollaborateMD

JANUARY 17, 2025

Fierce Healthcare just issued a 2025 healthcare outlook with several key findings, including: An American Hospital Association (AHA) report published in 2024 finds reimbursement from government payers is not keeping pace with the high costs of drugs, labor, and supplies and the inflation rate. Expensive technologies.

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Billing Insurance Hospital Medication 84

Health Populi

JULY 18, 2024

Motor vehicle insurance costs grew a whopping 19.5% Following the BLS report on the CPI for June 2024, PwC published their new annual report from PwC titled Behind the Numbers 2025 tells us that commercial health care spending is expected to grow some 8.0% and 3.2%, respectively. in the report, FYI). for Group plans and 7.5%

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Hospital Insurance Follow-Up Medication 71

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Centene is emulating other insurers unhappy with how regulators handled quality ratings for 2025. The flurry of complaints is “symptomatic of what appear to be systemic issues” with CMS calculations, Centene said.

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Insurance 106

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The insurer’s Wellpoint subsidiary is expanding its ACA footprint for the 2025 coverage year, likely in a bid to capture enrollees who recently lost Medicaid coverage.

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Insurance 102

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The payer joins several other insurers suing federal regulators over the 2025 quality ratings, which Elevance argues will cost it at least $375 million in bonus payments and rebates.

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Insurance 102

Medical Economics

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The malpractice insurance market is facing a number of challenges. What does that mean for rates in 2025?

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Insurance 59

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

as a “health insurance company” evolving to its vision as technology-informed health care. “People think of Humana as insurance company but we feel we’re more about integrated health care…(We’re) trying to make the pivot as a health partner, a tech company delivering health care.

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Insurance Collaboration Patient Experience 88

KevinMD.com

JANUARY 27, 2025

January In a blistering commentary, the American Medical Association’s flagship journal, JAMA, condemns the corrosive effect on patient care of the profit-seeking practices of health insurers.

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Insurance Patient Care Medication 67

Health Populi

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The 2025 convening of CES (once known as the Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas officially kicks off on 7 January 2025. More granularly, Ill be looking into Sleep-tech: The square footage of CES convention floor space devoted to sleep has been significant and visible, with 2025 growing new products and sleep-tech flavors.

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Scheduling Medication Billing Insurance 62

Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

This year, I opted for a 2025 Subaru Forester and a year’s tuition for a New Mexico resident living off-campus for 2023-24 attending University of New Mexico.

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Medication Follow-Up Billing Insurance 77

Medical Economics

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Congressional action needed before premium tax credits expire at end of 2025.

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Insurance 64

Practice Index

MARCH 6, 2025

Lords bid to exempt practices from NI increases Practices could still be exempted from the increase in employers National Insurance rates following a vote in the House of Lords. The Lords voted to amend the National Insurance Act to protect health and care providers. More than 13,000 people have signed a petition against the change.

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Huddles/Rounds Follow-Up Appointments Insurance 52

Sensible Medicine

JULY 30, 2024

This cohort was primarily made up of insured, educated, and non-Hispanic white patients. A trial to be on the lookout for beginning in 2025 is the 54 million dollar funded TRANSFORM trial. For this reason, we question whether the author's conclusion is warranted. The article is more hypothesis-generating than conclusive.

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Follow-Up Tests Medication Insurance 255

Practice Index

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

You’ll have seen in the press lately a lot of attention being paid to the National Insurance and National Living Wage increases being introduced from April 2025. However, not private enough to be able to obtain the same relief on the National Insurance increase that other private, small businesses can. So, which is it?

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Insurance Appointments 98

Medical Economics

JANUARY 9, 2025

With time still left to enroll, the 2025 marketplace open enrollment period has seen 11.6 million more enrollees compared to 2021.

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Insurance 52

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Medicaid and dual-eligible contracts fuel growth for the California-based insurer, but also come with upfront implementation costs that will lower its earnings this year, executives said.

Insurance 60

Insurance 60

Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

But consider the statistic that, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges, there will be a shortage of 65,500 physicians expected in 2020, and 90,400 in 2025. Across political party, most Americans also favor some flavor of universal health insurance. This is sobering through just the N=1 physician lens.

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Insurance Patient Care Medication 91

Practice Index

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We started off 2025 just as we ended the previous year! Read now PCNs secured for 2025/26: Welcome news or temporary fix? - NHS England has provided some welcome yet unquestionably overdue reassurance to GP practices and additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) staff that the future of PCNs is secure for the 2025/26 financial year.

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Documentation Patient Care Scheduling Insurance 52

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JULY 24, 2024

The acquisition, expected to close in the first half of 2025, will bring the health insurer into Connecticut.

Insurance 60

Insurance 60

Practice Index

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Practices set to struggle with wage increases The cost of the National Insurance and Minimum Wage increases to practices is significantly greater than previously thought. The post Primary care news round-up (13th February to 19th February 2025) appeared first on GP Practice Management Blog.

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Huddles/Rounds Discharges Appointments Hospital 52

Practice Index

MARCH 6, 2025

Best of our blogs Practices will need to find 550m due to salary changes, says the IGPM - Using the Salary Calculator in the HUB, practices have been able to estimate the impact of the upcoming increases to the National Living Wage and National Insurance on their practice budgets. Read now What is a Practice Manager worth?

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Documentation Transfers Patient Experience Insurance 52

Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The insurer also reported notable ACA growth for this year, though membership could tick back down through the second quarter due to program integrity efforts.

Insurance 52

Insurance 52

Practice Index

JANUARY 2, 2025

pay rise for GPs in 2025/26. The next GP contract: promises and uncertainty When it comes to funding, the Government sneaked in, just before the festive period, early details of the next GP contract for 2025/26. Before Christmas, the Government announced its proposal for a 2.8%

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Follow-Up Insurance Patient Care Medication 98

Amber Pharmacy

OCTOBER 16, 2024

It’s important to know about big changes coming to Medicare Part D in 2025 that can help you manage your prescription costs more easily. Here’s what will be different: $2,000 Out-of-Pocket Limit: In 2025, you won’t have to pay more than $2,000 for your medications in a year. This means more predictable costs throughout the year.

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Insurance Medication 52

The Healthcare Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

I spent 33 minutes on the phone on January 8th, 2025 before I finally navigated the maze that is American healthcare to the extent that a medication that has been prescribed for me by my doctor regularly for several years could be delivered to her office in time for my next appointment.

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Appointments Follow-Up Insurance Medication 73

Health Populi

MARCH 21, 2019

per average internet user per month in 2025, $3.18 Health Populi’s Hot Points: As experience and service become mantras in health care @ retail, it’s useful to call out a recent announcement from VSP, among the largest eyecare insurance providers. Globally, that calculated to a value of $2.36 for Americans.

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HIPAA Insurance Patient Care Billing 102

Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2022

By 2025, some 47% of healthcare workers plan to leave their positions by 2025, asserted in a report from Definitive Healthcare published in October 2022.

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Patient Satisfaction Insurance Medication Patient Experience 71

Practice Index

MARCH 6, 2025

The announcement of the new 2025/26 GP contract has been met with a mix of cautious optimism and deep-seated concerns. The funding looks good on paper, but once you factor in National Insurance and minimum wage increases, theres very little left to make a real difference, said one Practice Manager.

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Insurance Communication 59

Health Populi

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Bank’s expectation that the “use of digital payments is set to surge” by 2025. “The relationship between healthcare provider, patient and insurance payor is a complex one,” the U.S. Banks experience. The chart here illustrates U.S.

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Billing Patient Experience Follow-Up Insurance 83

Practice Index

JANUARY 9, 2025

. - While supporting practices to set up Holiday Manager, weve heard some questions that pop up again and again, so if youre thinking about starting 2025 with a better way of managing your leave, read on! Read more Practice Index Ultimate Social Media Planner 2025 [FREE] - You told us how much you loved it!

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Follow-Up Insurance Documentation Communication 59

Health Populi

OCTOBER 10, 2022

And it’s crucial for incumbent health care suppliers — hospitals, pharma, devices and supplies, and health plans — to assess, learn, strategize and execute on the potential shift of $265 billion of care services that McKinsey expects to migrate to the home by 2025. Why, that’s just some months away from “now.”

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Acute Care Hospital Long Term Care Insurance 62

The Healthcare Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

During an earnings call last month , President and CEO Kirk Tanner outlined the company’s plan to try a new form of pricing: “Beginning as early as 2025, we will begin testing more enhanced features like dynamic pricing and day-part offerings along with AI-enabled menu changes and suggestive selling.” By KIM BELLARD Nice try, Wendy’s.

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Hospice Appointments Tests Insurance 95

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

health consumers is with the health care system industry segments like hospitals, insurance companies, and pharma — as patients differentiate between the “system” and the “people” working in it. Start with over-arching finding that, “Three out of four patients believe the U.S.

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Insurance Patient Centered Care Communication Medication 62

The Healthcare Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

What were left with entering into 2025 are a smorgasbord of solutions clamoring to attach themselves to traditional enterprise incumbents (Health Insurance Providers, Electronic Health Records, Hospital Systems). non-insured, minimally-insured, students, etc.)

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Insurance Follow-Up Collaboration Patient Support 67