ND Health Connection

07/26/2016

FARGO—Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota is launching an initiative that includes a gradual shift to paying health providers based on patient outcomes to reward performance rather than volume.The Blue Alliance pay-for-performance program involves a stronger collaboration with the state's health....

03/14/2016

How the ACA tax penalty affects those without insurance...

02/23/2016

Higher premiums for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program would leave many low-income US children uninsured, according to a review in Pediatrics. Researchers evaluated data from 17 studies published between 1995 and 2014 and found that an increase of about $10 in premiums in 2003 doll…

02/19/2016

IBM's biggest deal in eight years is aimed at bolstering its new health unit and ultimately helping to fix health care.

02/15/2016

HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell did not directly answer a question from Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, regarding talk that the Obama administration intends to use executive authority to negotiate drug prices for Medicare Part D. "Such an executive order would be in violation of the law, as the statu…

02/15/2016

One of the largest holes in a retirement plan!

More than one-quarter of 65-year-olds will spend at least $100,000 for long-term care, and 15% will spend over $250,000, yet most people do not have insurance to protect them from those costs. A report by the nonprofit Bipartisan Policy Center suggests a two-pronged approach to the issue: a basic "r…

01/08/2016

The proportion of US adults lacking health insurance was 11.9% in the fourth quarter, showing essentially no change compared with the beginning of 2015, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index says. The White House says 11.3 million people have signed up for 2016 plans under the Affordable Care Act,…

01/04/2016

Could it happen???

The Senate has approved a bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and the House is expected to take up the measure this week. President Barack Obama has said he will veto it.