Dec
3
Ranking Flu Activity - Walgreens Flu Index
Thu, 12/03/2015 - 18:40
Flu season is here. Walgreens has just launched its first weekly Flu Index for the 2015-’16 season. Walgreens states the index "provides state and market-specific information regarding flu activity, and is compiled using retail prescription data for antiviral medications used to treat influenza across Walgreens locations nationwide."
Nov
30
2016 Health Plan Premium Projections
Mon, 11/30/2015 - 12:35
Nov
19
J.D. Power on Top 2015 Vision and Dental Plans
Thu, 11/19/2015 - 19:04
J.D. Power has released results from their 2015 Vision Care Satisfaction Study and 2015 Dental Care Satisfaction Study.
Nov
16
Percentage Increases in Healthcare Spending Per Capita
Mon, 11/16/2015 - 12:25
The Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI) recently released its free 26-page 2014 Health Care Cost and Utilization Report, and 92-page Appendix, which provide a definitive examination of detailed U.S. health care cost and utilization component line items and demographics.
Nov
4
Benefits Technology: Five Trends Commanding the Attention of Employers
Wed, 11/04/2015 - 23:09
The Healthcare Trends Institute has released results of their Healthcare Benefits Technology Trends Survey, designed to examine how benefits decision makers are gauging current and future technology investments, via a 11-question poll of human resources (HR) executives, benefit specialists, and other benefit decision makers.
Here's the five key trends they shared from their report:
Oct
30
Amy Mullins on Top 10 Practice Transformation Lessons from the Field
Fri, 10/30/2015 - 13:55
Rather than condense her article all the way down to a healthsprocket list, we have provided excerpts that provide a little more explanation for each item.
Oct
23
Health CO-OPs Closures and Enrollment
Fri, 10/23/2015 - 15:17
Much is being made of the rapid demise of ACA CO-OP plans. Several more closures at the end of this year were recently announced. Of the 23 original plans, 9 will not be around in 2016 and a number more are endangered.
Two lists regarding CO-OPs have recently been posted on healthsprocket:
Top Five Health CO-OPs by 2015 Estimated Enrollment
Nine Health CO-OPs Are Ceasing Business in 2015
Oct
16
What's been trending on healthsprocket these days
Fri, 10/16/2015 - 14:46
What's been trending on healthsprocket these days? Here's the top ten most viewed lists (in order) during the past 18 months - as you can see, these lists cover a spectrum of topics:
Lyndsey Gilpin: 10 Technologies Changing The Future Of Healthcare
InternetMedicine.com: Top 25 Healthcare Thought Leaders You Should Follow on Twitter
Oct
9
Towers Watson/NBGH Employer Survey - Annual Health Care Cost Trends
Fri, 10/09/2015 - 15:35
Towers Watson and the National Business Group on Health published findings of the 20th annual Towers Watson/NBGH Best Practices in Health Care Employer Survey, which addresses large employers (1,000+ employees.) The results sound on a theme heard from other studies on health plan and health care cost increases released earlier this year - cost increases continue at a single mid-digit pace - far from the double digit increases experienced during the previous decade. But, healthcare cost increases still outpace general inflation.
Oct
2
Celebrating the Arrival of ICD10 With Opera, Crocheting, Turtles and Spacecraft
Fri, 10/02/2015 - 15:33
As of October 1st, ICD10 (International Classification of Diseases version 10)is the official coding system for diagnostic and procedure codes in the U.S. It might have been more fitting to have the conversion from ICD9 to ICD10 occur on October 10th (10/10), or even better on October 10th, 2010.