Reimbursement
HIMSS senior director of state and federal affairs expects the administration will focus on two areas: reimbursement models and benefit design.
As consumers shop for insurance during the open enrollment period, many of the directories are outdated or incomplete.
The average monthly advanced premium tax credit was $291, according to the Kaiser report, but the range was from $750 in Alaska to $178 in New York.
HFMA identified a number of different policy proposals and ranked them in terms of probability and positive or negative financial impact.
The increase comes on the heels of a five-year period of historically low growth, from 2009 to 2013.
Law has brought coverage to tens of thousands of previously uninsured shooting victims, often young African-American men, who missed follow-up care.
Providers have been waiting years for payments, applications for benefits have been stalled up to a year, lead attorney says.
Also, more than 850,000 renewed coverage in past two weeks.
Indiana's unique Medicaid expansion, which she helped create, was designed to appeal to conservatives.
With Tom Price leading HHS and Seema Verma at the CMS helm, hospitals should brace for value-based pullback, problems accessing capital, Paul Keckley says.