Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Change Healthcare Inc. (known as Emdeon before rebranding in 2015, which followed its acquisition of Change Healthcare) is a provider of revenue and payment cycle management that connects payers, providers, and patients within the U.S. healthcare system. [2]
Healthcare reform advocacy groups in the United States are non-profit organizations in the US who have as one of their primary goals healthcare reform in the United States. These notable organizations address issues such as universal healthcare , national health insurance , and single-payer healthcare .
Much of the historical debate around healthcare reform centered around single-payer healthcare, and particularly pointing to the hidden costs of treating the uninsured [310] while free-market advocates point to freedom of choice in purchasing health insurance [311] [312] [313] and unintended consequences of government intervention, citing the ...
The hack on Change Healthcare, which is owned by UnitedHealth Group, was reported on Feb. 21. The breach is delaying hundreds of millions of dollars in payments to hospitals, medical providers ...
Change Healthcare processes about half of all U.S. medical claims. The Feb. 21 hack on the technology unit of the largest U.S. health insurer was carried out by Russian ransomware gang BlackCat ...
Acting as a pipeline between health care and insurance providers, Change operates 15 billion medical transactions each year, representing more than $1.5 trillion in health care claims, its website ...
All-payer rate setting is a price setting mechanism in which all third parties pay the same price for services at a given hospital. [1] It can be used to increase the market power of payers (such as private and/or public insurance companies) versus providers, such as hospital systems , in order to control costs.
A study published in August 2008 in Health Affairs found that covering all of the uninsured in the US would increase national spending on health care by $122.6 billion, which would represent a 5% increase in health care spending and 0.8% of GDP. "From society's perspective, covering the uninsured is still a good investment.