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WellNet Healthcare Group, a national health management company, announced several new management additions, including three new hires from Wall Street. Scott Bevier has joined its team as Chief Oper...
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Spending for prescription drugs in the U.S. in 2010 rose by 2.3 percent, the lowest rate in years, while the volume of medicines used rose by just 0.5 percent, a new study from the IMS Institute ...
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A new study conducted by Discovery Health’s incentive-based wellness program, Vitality, reports wellness programs that incorporate positive incentives can lead to behavior change that, ov...
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While a growing number of companies are experimenting with social media as a way to have a new conversation with customers, few feel they have the metrics and tools in place to judge the impact of t...
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Advances in predictive analytics allow insurance carriers to use data acquired at first notice of loss to segment claims by severity, Deloitte (New York) says in its latest report, “Driving Op...
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They’re called embedded care managers, patient navigators, even geriatric coordinators. Increasingly, health plans and physicians’ offices are catching on to the idea that this extra lay...
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Using clinical analytics to lower healthcare costs emerged as the top driver for payers, according to a whitepaper in the second annual study conducted by HIMSS Analytics and sponsored by Anvit...
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Many companies are incorporating wellness programs that include health club memberships into their benefit packages as a way to increase enterprise productivity, according to the Healthcare Leaders ...
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The cost of healthcare for a typical family of four has increased 7.3 percent this year, to $19,393, according to Milliman, Inc. That figure was published in the 2011 Milliman Medical Index&nb...
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The financial crisis has raised expectations that C-suite executives have of their risk managers to be leaders within their organizations. These top executives want their risk manager...
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