This year Shield HealthCare is offering a video component to our Caregiver Contest for the first time. We look forward to your videos! Please keep in mind that we are only accepting videos that are hosted on YouTube’s platform, and the entry dates are September 7th through November 30th, 2015. Creating an Account Since YouTube… Continue reading How to Upload a Video to YouTube to Enter Our Caregiver Story Contest

Shield HealthCare's Ostomy Lifestlye Specialist, Laura Cox, hosts this ostomy FAQ webinar, with tips for dressing and sleeping with an ostomy, and more.

Warnings of a fatal imbalance in the risk pool now look ill-founded, with money left over in a fund to protect insurers from costly claims. Not so long ago, critics of Obamacare were warning of death spirals, the risk that too many sick people and not enough healthy ones would sign up for insurance, triggering a cycle of ever higher costs… Continue reading That Obamacare Death Spiral Isn’t Panning Out

By Chad Terhune for the Los Angeles Times California’s health insurance exchange wants to know why you got sick this summer. With 1.4 million people enrolled, the state-run marketplace is embarking on an ambitious effort to collect insurance company data on prescriptions, doctor visits and hospital stays for every Obamacare patient. Covered California says this massive… Continue reading California’s Obamacare Exchange to Collect Insurance Data on Patients

Originally published by The Denver Post The legislative oversight committee for the state health insurance exchange heard Wednesday from brokers, agents and consumers about the good, the bad and the ugly aspects of the two-year-old marketplace. Even as the oversight committee heard testimony from some of those directly affected by operational problems and successes at… Continue reading Connect for Health Colorado’s Oversight Committee Gears Up to Provide Greater Legislative Scrutiny

Every once in a while, a study comes along that reminds us that a majority of the institutions we cover at Modern Healthcare are not-for-profits operating under government charters that absolve them from paying federal, state and local taxes. More than three-quarters of the hospitals beds in the U.S. are housed in religiously affiliated or… Continue reading New Approaches to Community Benefit Needed

Original article authored by Harris Meyer of ModernHealthcare.com on June 14, 2015 California is the latest state to address the increasingly common problem of patients getting large surprise medical bills from out-of-network physicians after receiving care at a hospital that’s in their health plan’s provider network. The issue has political legs with both Republicans and… Continue reading New AMA Leader Rejects Growing Movement to Regulate Out-of-Network Doc Bills

Wishing a congratulations to all the best children's hospitals that made it into the top twelve Honor Roll list named by U.S. News and World Reports.

Hospital list prices varied sharply within individual markets, with the highest-priced hospitals routinely charging more than five times the rates of the lowest-priced facilities in the same area, new CMS data show. Those high retail prices have become a growing concern as more patients face unexpected out-of-network bills. The CMS released fiscal 2013 data last… Continue reading Out-of-network Charges Under Fire

Spending growth in the $2.9 trillion US health economy is expected to slow in 2016 as compared to 2015; however, it will still outpace overall economic inflation. Stock prices, earnings reports and the customer base have increased and that means the industry is financially healthy. Sadly, affordable healthcare remains out-of-reach for many consumers. PwC’s Health… Continue reading Healthcare Spending Growth Rate to Dip 6.5% in 2016