Reimbursement
Participants in the program are expected to scale their value-based payments to 30 percent by 2016 and 50 percent by 2018.
Under the provision, CMS could continue to use Medicare Administrative Contractors to "probe and educate" providers on their likely compliance with the two-midnight rule.
Bill calls for stiffer fines for tax delinquent Medicare service providers, keeping reimbursement for acute care providers to 1 percent and by upping premiums for wealthier Medicare beneficiaries.
Staring down the sometimes troubled and opaque past of medical devices, and upward trend in spending, one national insurer is trying to build momentum for a universal way to compare and track outcomes.
This tax season, for the first time since the health law passed five years ago, consumers are facing its financial consequences. The worst may be yet to come.
Silicon Valley is coming for the employer sponsored health insurance business, trying to raise the bar on group health benefits and "democratize" self-funding.
Official projections of long-term Medicare spending were lowered sharply in response to the ACA. It seemed like the ACA had made a major dent in addressing our long-term fiscal challenges. But had it?
The state that put itself on the vanguard of health reform only to struggle under the weight of its own ambition is now has an ultimatum for fixing its public insurance exchange.
The retail health chain that could have helped reprise Humana's historic roots turned out to be a good lesson in the evolving convenient healthcare space, plus it brought a tidy profit.
Amid a ballooning deficit, policymakers in Delaware are scrapping a proposal to introduce more cost sharing for state employees, a decision that may come back to bite when the Cadillac Tax arrives.