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QuadMed Enters into Agreement with MDLiveCare
By now you have read that QuadMed and MDLiveCare have reached agreement for all the QuadMed owned or managed sites to use the MDLiveCare national network of providers to offer telemedicine in a variety of specialties wherever and whenever needed using readily available technology. The model used...
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Novia CareClinics Opens Clinic for School District
It was recently announced that Fort Wayne Community School District opened a clinic for employees which will be managed by Novia CareClinics, LLC. (Novia is headquartered in Indianapolis and per the web site operates about 30 clinics at this time.) This is the first of two such clinics the dis...
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AHRQ/Mathematica Research on PCMH and Complex Patients
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in conjunction with Mathematica completed a study of five different medical practices to attempt to begin to identify key components they had in common in successfully implementing patient-centered medical homes. The outcome was published in the Ann...
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in conjunction with Mathematica completed a study of five ...
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MBGH Provides Tips to ...
The Midwest Business Group on Health is offering guidance to employers based on a five-year study, "Ident...
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Pay-for-Performance (W...
Highmark (a Blue Cross/Blue Shield corporation) reported that its Quality Blue program has demonstrated "...
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Cost Savings Through A...
The US Oncology Network announced in a news release this month that a second study on the use of Level I ...
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QuadMed Enters into Agreement with MDLiveCare
By now you have read that QuadMed and MDLiveCare have reached agreement for all the QuadMed owned or managed sites to use the MDLiveCare national network of providers to offer t...
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Novia CareClinics Opens Clinic for School District
It was recently announced that Fort Wayne Community School District opened a clinic for employees which will be managed by Novia CareClinics, LLC. (Novia is headquartered in...
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AHRQ/Mathematica Research on PCMH and Complex Patients
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in conjunction with Mathematica completed a study of five different medical practices to attempt to begin to identify key componen...
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IRS Update on W-2 Reporting on Healthcare Benefit Costs
Here's a link for all of you on the latest "clarification" on reporting the cost of benefits you are providing to your employees. We are not attorneys, so we won't comment on ...
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City of Lexington Opens On-Site Clinic
Marathon Health was awarded the contract for this clinic last year, but the clinic itself just recently opened. Interestingly, the medical director for the new facility is Dr....
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New Clinics
Just a quick update on a few new clinics which recently opened or are under serious consideration (and the trend continues with municipalities and other governmental units). T...
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Johns Hopkins and Pepsico Partner-up for Improved Quality & Price Stability
It was announced this week (December 8, 2011) that PepsiCo has entered into an agreement with Johns Hopkins (brokered by Mercer) to allow employees and dependents (of which Peps...
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MBGH Provides Tips to Improve Employee Health
The Midwest Business Group on Health is offering guidance to employers based on a five-year study, "Identifying the Triggers and Barriers to Engaging Employees in their Health B...
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Take Care Health and Cisco Team Up for Long Distance Care
Take Care Health System took over the management of the Cisco San Jose on-site clinic earlier this year, but the latest news is that the two industry giants (Take Care in clinic...
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Cigna Invests in Edington Associates
Dee Edington, Ph.D. of the University of Michigan has been recognized as a leader in wellness for some time now. Cigna has now decided to invest in his private consulting fir...