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Medicaid is the United States health program for eligible individuals and families with low incomes and resources. It is a means-tested program that is jointly funded by the states and federal government, and is managed by the states.

SCIO Health Analytics announces acquisition of Clear Vision Information Systems

SCIO Health Analytics today announced it has acquired Clear Vision Information Systems of Westlake Village, California, creators of an analytics solution and services suite that provides risk adjustment and quality metric strategies for health plans and providers.

27 Jan 2016

Virginia Mason wins Healthgrades' Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence for sixth year in row

Virginia Mason Medical Center has received the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence for the sixth consecutive year from Healthgrades, a leading online resource for information about physicians and hospitals in the United States.

21 Jan 2016

Colorado state employees now have access to Paladina Health's family practice physicians

Paladina Health, an innovative primary care approach to delivering individualized health care, announced today that State of Colorado employees and their eligible dependents who have health coverage through UnitedHealthcare now have access to Paladina Health's family practice physicians in Colorado.

13 Jan 2016

Geographic location influences quality grades assigned to Medicare Advantage plans

Geographic location is an important predictor of the quality grades assigned to Medicare Advantage insurance plans, and the federal government should consider accounting for geographic differences to allow for fairer comparisons among plans, Boston University School of Public Health researchers say in a new study.

13 Jan 2016

Loyola Physician Partners selected to participate in CMS' NGACO Model

Loyola Physician Partners, as a member of Trinity Health and the Trinity Health ACO, has been selected to participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services's Next Generation ACO Model (NGACO Model).

13 Jan 2016

Young children in deep poverty fare worse on health and development indicators

Young children in deep poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

12 Jan 2016

Apollo Care Connect acquires Healarium's population health management technology and operating platform

Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc., an integrated population health management company, is pleased to announce that Apollo Care Connect, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ApolloMed, has acquired the population health management technology and operating platform of Healarium, Inc.

12 Jan 2016

Meridian Health Plan named one of 'Best and Brightest Companies to Work For'

Meridian Health Plan, for the second time, has been nationally named one of the "Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" by the National Association for Business Resources. Previously, the NABR had consistently named Meridian as one of "Metropolitan Detroit's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" 2012 through 2015.

8 Jan 2016

QT Vascular reports initial results from first-in-human study of Chocolate Heart drug-coated balloon

QT Vascular Ltd., together with its subsidiaries (the "Company" or "QT Vascular", and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group"), a global company engaged in the design, assembly and distribution of advanced therapeutic solutions for the minimally invasive treatment of vascular disease, announce today the release of the initial results from the first-in-human study of its unique drug-coated balloon, Chocolate Heart.

7 Jan 2016

Palliative care improves care quality, reduces costs for advanced cancer patients with comorbidities

Patients with incurable cancer and numerous other serious health conditions who consulted with a palliative care team within two days of hospitalization had significant savings in hospital costs, according to a new study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

7 Jan 2016

Study finds 50% drop in uninsured hospital stays in Medicaid expansion states

Just six months after opening up health insurance to more low-income people, states saw a huge drop in the amount of care their hospitals provided to uninsured patients, and a rise in care for people with coverage, a new study finds.

6 Jan 2016

Study supports open and patient-centered visitation guidelines in critical care settings

Watching the clock is becoming an outdated part of visiting a patient in intensive care, as more hospitals ease restrictions and develop more flexible policies focused on the preferences and needs of each patient.

5 Jan 2016

Most patients with chronic pain continue to receive prescription opioids after nonfatal overdose

A study led by Boston Medical Center indicates that most patients with chronic pain who are hospitalized after a nonfatal opioid overdose continue to receive prescription opioids after the overdose and are at high risk for experiencing a repeated overdose.

30 Dec 2015

Harmony Health Plan of Illinois to donate $10,000 to Kidz Korna

Harmony Health Plan of Illinois, Inc., a subsidiary of WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (NYSE: WCG), will give $10,000 to Kidz Korna to help make the holidays special for 10,000 low-income children in Chicago's Englewood community.

26 Dec 2015

Study: Low-dose CT screening can reduce lung cancer mortality by 20% in high-risk population

A national study involving 53,000 patients and 11 institutions (including Wake Forest Baptist) compared CT screens with chest X-rays and found that the scanning reduced lung cancer mortality by 20 percent in this high-risk population.

23 Dec 2015

New survey shows how patients, pharmacists benefit from med sync programs

A recent survey of National Community Pharmacists Association member pharmacies utilizing NCPA's Simplify My Meds (SMM) program documented how both patients and pharmacists benefit from medication synchronization programs, or "med sync."

21 Dec 2015

HealthCare Partners Medical Group receives IHA Medicare Advantage 4.5 Star Award

DaVita HealthCare Partners, a leading independent medical group in America and leading provider of kidney care services, today announced that HealthCare Partners Medical Group has received the Integrated Healthcare Association's Medicare Advantage 4.5 Star Award.

21 Dec 2015

Texas still has highest rate of uninsured adults in the nation

The rate of adults without health insurance across the U.S. dropped nearly twice as much as in Texas from 2013 to 2015, according to a new report released today by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Episcopal Health Foundation.

18 Dec 2015

Researchers call for improved cause-of-death reporting to advance understanding of epilepsy

Recent studies conclude that people with epilepsy have a 27-fold greater risk of sudden death than people without the disorder. However, many of these deaths could be prevented through greater identification of epilepsy as a cause of death, and in educating the public more effectively about the disease's life-threatening dangers.

17 Dec 2015

NITOS coding platform allows users to examine role and value of medical imaging

A new free resource allows researchers to use Medicare and other payer claims databases to identify and meaningfully characterize medical imaging by noninvasive or invasive procedures, modality, body region and clinical focus. Developed by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute, the Neiman Imaging Types of Service (NITOS) coding platform is an open source classification system, allowing users to readily extract utilization and cost data to examine the role and value of medical imaging.

17 Dec 2015

Medicaid News and Research

SCIO Health Analytics announces acquisition of Clear Vision Information Systems

Virginia Mason wins Healthgrades' Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence for sixth year in row

Colorado state employees now have access to Paladina Health's family practice physicians

Geographic location influences quality grades assigned to Medicare Advantage plans

Loyola Physician Partners selected to participate in CMS' NGACO Model

Young children in deep poverty fare worse on health and development indicators

Apollo Care Connect acquires Healarium's population health management technology and operating platform

Meridian Health Plan named one of 'Best and Brightest Companies to Work For'

QT Vascular reports initial results from first-in-human study of Chocolate Heart drug-coated balloon

Palliative care improves care quality, reduces costs for advanced cancer patients with comorbidities

Study finds 50% drop in uninsured hospital stays in Medicaid expansion states

Study supports open and patient-centered visitation guidelines in critical care settings

Most patients with chronic pain continue to receive prescription opioids after nonfatal overdose

Harmony Health Plan of Illinois to donate $10,000 to Kidz Korna

Study: Low-dose CT screening can reduce lung cancer mortality by 20% in high-risk population

New survey shows how patients, pharmacists benefit from med sync programs

HealthCare Partners Medical Group receives IHA Medicare Advantage 4.5 Star Award

Texas still has highest rate of uninsured adults in the nation

Researchers call for improved cause-of-death reporting to advance understanding of epilepsy

NITOS coding platform allows users to examine role and value of medical imaging

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