McKinsey & Company has released details regarding the methodology of a survey that concluded that employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) will drop by a third after 2014. The White House blasted the methodology in a blog posted yesterday.

Inaccurate claims payments have increased by 2 percent overall among commercial health insurers during the past year, according to the American Medical Associations (AMA) fourth annual National Health Insurer Report Card.

Collecting data and linking them to quality measures are vital for targeting efforts at reducing racial and ethnic disparities in care, according to a June 16 perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Use of nonprofit community clinics and health centers is increasing, and these facilities are seeing more uninsured patients and more chronic conditions, according to a report from Direct Relief.

Online physician rating sites are gaining popularity, yet patients who post on online physician rating sites are less likely to comment on perceived low-quality physicians, and more apt to exaggerate their opinions as compared to offline populations, according to a paper presented June 20 at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Healthcare 2011 conference in Montreal.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court has branded House Bill 89, an act requiring state Attorney General Michael Delaney to join State of Florida et al v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services et al., the lawsuit challenging the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA), unconstitutional.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has projected that, under the current law, Medicare payment rates for physician services will be reduced by 29.4 percent in 2012.

Exception situations can enable clinicians to get around the limitations of structured data during clinical documentation in an EHR but must be handled carefully to avoid errors, according to a case report published online June 14 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.