Health Care Delivery

Healthcare insurance costs in the new state exchanges will be determined by location for the many individuals and small employers who will be participating.

The House of Representatives' Energy and Commerce Committee recently released draft legislation that would replace Medicare's current physician payment system with a quality-based system.

Employers with 51 or more workers will now have until 2015 to face mandates for insurance coverage. The delay comes after federal decision to work out several logistical issues surrounding the mandate.

The impacts the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have on healthcare delivery will reach far beyond the clinical level. For that reason, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), a strategic partner of The American Journal of Managed Care, knows that cultivating collaborative discussions about health law implementation is only common sense.

Reducing inappropriate use of cardiac telemetry may improve the cost of care while maintaining patient safety.

Hospitals in more competitive markets had significantly lower costs per discharge for both Medicare and privately insured patients.