Mass. Blue back in Medicare market. (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts)Bell, Allison
Mass. Blues floats flat-fee plan.Mass. Blues floats flat-fee plan.The article reports on the plan of health insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts to offer a flat-fee reimbursement scheme to health care providers. Blue Cross is giving providers the option to switch out of a tr...
The Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation says, due to “systemic racism,” black and Latino populations are more likely than white and Asian communities to live below the poverty level. They are less likely to accumulate wealth, own a home, access health c...
Black and Hispanic people are two to three times more likely to contract COVID-19, twice as likely to be hospitalized for coronavirus and three times more likely todie from itthan white and Asian people of a similar age, a Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts repor...
policy change does not apply will be harmed as well, given their fear that it might apply to them, and the result will be poorer health, more food insecurity and greater stress for many in the commonwealth," said Audrey Shelto, president of...
Just this week, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts and doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston signed a "alternative quality contract" designed to lower costs by paying doctors and hospitals for the quality, not the quantity, of the care they provide, including helping pati...
Like death panels, Obama’s African citizenship, and jackalope, the mythologicalhealth insurance premium taxdoes not exist.There are some taxes on insurance companies that the insurance lobby claims will be passed directly to the consumer. And one insurer, Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Alabama has ...
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Reports on the combined efforts of eight teaching hospitals in Boston, Massachusetts and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts to infuse capital into healthcare centers serving the city's poorer neighborhoods. Worth of loan guarantees; Goals; List of hospitals involved.Morrissey...
Report raps Mass. Blue business plan.(reorganization plan of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Inc. is criticized by consultants)Bell, Allison