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Idaho is redesigning its Medicaid program to provide individualized benefits to three groups of people -- low-income children and working-age adults, individuals with disabilities or special needs, and elders.
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Patients surveyed by Harris Interactive for the Commonwealth Fund report experiences of wasteful, inefficient, or unsafe health care.
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As the nation heads toward the midterm elections of 2006 and what could be two lame-duck years for the Bush administration, major health system and Medicaid reform proposals have surfaced.
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The National Governors Association (NGA) says states have an opportunity to save billions of health care dollars each year by promoting healthy lifestyles among Medicaid beneficiaries.
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The repair of the faulty billing system that processes Maine's Medicaid payments remains a protracted work in progress.
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Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (BCBSNJ), headquartered in Newark, in collaboration with The Leapfrog Group, in Washington, DC, has launched the Horizon BCBSNJ Hospital Recognition Program.
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New York-Presbyterian Hospital recently received top honors in two categories at the Global Six Sigma Summit and Industry Awards -- "Best Achievement of Six Sigma in Healthcare" (sponsored by CIGNA Corporation), and the Platinum Award for "The Most Outstanding Organizational Achievement through Six Sigma."
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A Six Sigma project involving four different departments was the impetus for a "Learning Exchange and Appreciation Program" (LEAP).
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Twenty-nine leading health care organizations have joined forces to form an organization called the Alliance for Cardiac Care Excellence (ACE), whose goal is to ensure that all cardiac patients in the United States receive care consistent with nationally accepted standards.
