Reimbursement
The new budget deal passed by lawmakers last week doesn't restore funding to various government discretionary programs that support social services - such as healthcare programs for the homeless. And that's likely to lead to higher healthcare spending and increased charity care at hospitals.
Many of the accountable care organizations in the U.S. are hospital or primary care provider networks banning together to provide care. A group of federally-qualified health centers in the Minneapolis area has broken the mold by creating the first safety-net ACO.
Doctors are getting a three-month reprieve from Congress. Included in the bipartisan two-year budget deal to fund the government is a delay until March of a scheduled 24 percent Medicare payment cut and a 0.5 percent pay increase.
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The Obama Administration tacked a 13th hardship exemption onto the Affordable Care Act before the end of year, offering people with cancelled plans relief from the individual mandate and expanding eligibility for catastrophic plans.
A recent study in the Annals of Emergency Medicine suggested that the insurance coverage expansion provisions of the Affordable Care Act might impact the bottom line of emergency departments across the country in a positive way, but that doesn't mean EDs will be flush.
About a year after pitching the option of serving as "web-based" broker for insurance exchanges, eHealth Insurance is getting closer to helping sell Americans subsidized health plans.
Oversight of the health insurance exchanges and the shift to value-based payments are the leading management challenges facing the Department of Health and Human Services in the coming year and the most concerning to the HHS Office of Inspector General.
Public sector health insurance costs grew at twice the rate of the private sector this year, with taxpayers covering a large chunk and set to cover more if those high costs remain in the coming era of the Cadillac tax, according to a new survey.
Two Colorado lawmakers want to create a new state tax credit that would be available to individuals who end up paying federal penalties for going without health insurance.