Disability Insurance for Physicians: 6 Important Benefits to Consider

Disability Insurance for Physicians: 6 Important Benefits to Consider

There are a number of special factors that physicians and other medical professionals should take into account when purchasing disability insurance.  Below are 6 key features and benefits to strongly consider having in your plan:

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Why Humana is Giving $77M to Various Physician Groups

Why Humana is Giving $77M to Various Physician Groups

Humana will distribute $77.2 million in bonus payments to roughly 3,700 physician groups nationwide who were engaged in its Provider Quality Rewards Program in 2014. The goal is to increase the 59% of Humana individual Medicare Advantage members who have primary care physicians participating in value-based relationships, to 75% by the end of 2017.

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Hillary Clinton Voices Her Concerns about Merger Mania in Healthcare

Hillary Clinton Voices Her Concerns about Merger Mania in Healthcare

Hillary Clinton is raising criticism on proposed mergers of the nation’s largest healthcare companies. The deals between Anthem and Cigna and between Aetna and Humana are still under review by the Department of Justice for the next year or so. Clinton has serious concerns about the pending mergers saying that customers would not benefit in any way, at least not in the way that these companies have said that they would.

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Will Sick Care Consolidation Increase or Decrease Prices?

Will Sick Care Consolidation Increase or Decrease Prices?

By now you know that a) hospitals are gobbling up practices , and b) hospitals are gobbling up each other and becoming vertically intergrated delivery networks , and c) health insurance companies are merging too. 

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Data Analytics Brings New Life to Large Health Insurers Amid Market Disruption

Data Analytics Brings New Life to Large Health Insurers Amid Market Disruption

Many industries are being challenged and disrupted by new market forces from the democratization of information to greater price transparency as well as the explosion of the sharing economy and social media. The healthcare industry is especially being thrown into a storm of change while it moves towards member-centric models based on quality and not quantity.

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