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Highmark, Verizon collaborate on new HIE
Pennsylvania insurer Highmark and telecom giant Verizon are creating a massive new health information exchange, the two companies announced this week. Once complete, the Highmark HIE will cover much
MEDfx, Community Health Alliance unveil state health info exchange
Thanks to a collaboration announced today by MEDfx Corporation and the Virginia-based Community Health Alliance, the Commonwealth is set to launch a health information exchange that will allow
Super-sized HIEs rise up nationwide
Even as some health information exchange projects fail, others are rising to take their place, and some are quite large. The two latest examples are regional HIEs in western Pennsylvania and southern
Could capitation be the hot new payment trend?
While capitation never disappeared, its heyday ended more than a decade ago--or so most hospitals thought. Pennsylvania's largest health insurer, Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc., could be in the
Highmark discussing 'flat rate' reimbursements for docs, hospitals
Health insurer Highmark and two Pennsylvania-based hospitals are in talks to change the way those hospitals are reimbursed, possibly to a flat rate for groups of people. Dr. Kenneth Melani,
