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The tortuous roots of the individual mandate will be tested this week as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the case regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), but it's only one of the pieces the Justices will be hearing about the law.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has been cracking down recently on Medicare overpayments to hospitals.
Campaigning in Louisiana before the primary there, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney sounded a lot like arch rival Rick Santorum on healthcare.
The federal Health Insurance Exchange regulations were released in final form recently. I had the opportunity to hear Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine speak in Philadelphia about his state's progress towards building an exchange the very next day (I was speaking later on the program).
On Thursday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that health insurance premium increases in nine states have been deemed "unreasonable" under the rate review authority granted by the Affordable Care Act.
The Supreme Court's decision on the future of the health reform law will likely ripple through the political atmosphere around the elections and the direction of health-related stocks in the market no matter which way the justices bend.
When ONC stands up the NwHIN Exchange in October there will be at least 25 partners spanning military, private and public health entities sharing patient records with each other on the back of various standards.
On Thursday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that health insurance premium increases in nine states have been deemed "unreasonable" under the rate review authority granted by the Affordable Care Act.
The Ohio Hospital Association (OHA) will host Ohio hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies and federal healthcare officials on Friday, March 23, in Columbus to begin the implementation of the Partnership for Patients program, a national public-private collaboration to improve the quality, safety and affordability of health care for all Americans.
The timing of ICD-10 may still be up in the air, but eventually, the transition will call for myriad changes, some of which organizations should consider outsourcing, and some they should not.