Chris Anderson
Community Health Systems has reportedly received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking documents related to its emergency room admissions and observations practices at its hospitals.
The Medicare Trustees Report released Friday has forecasted that Medicare's Hospital Insurance Fund is projected to run out of money in 2024, five years earlier than the trustees projected last year in their annual report.
A Republican-sponsored bill aimed at overhauling Maine's health insurance regulations is facing strong partisan opposition, with critics contending it will make insurance unaffordable for those living in rural areas.
Tenet Healthcare has rejected Community Health Systems' $7.25-per-share, all-cash offer to acquire the company, a move that likely signals an end to a six-month struggle for control of the Dallas-based operator of 49 hospitals and 84 acute care centers.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s controversial plan to privatize Florida’s Medicaid and CHIP programs covering 2.9 million people continued to move through the Florida legislature last month, though a May 6 end to the current session will leave the House and Senate a short window to reconcile the two versions of the bill.
The California Department of Managed Health Care has asked Blue Shield of California to justify a 37.5 percent increase for approximately 70,000 members who are in managed care plans.
In what Wall Street analysts are calling one of most contentious hostile takeover bids in recent memory, Tenet Healthcare filed a lawsuit in early April against Community Health Systems, charging CHS with admissions procedures that overbill Medicare.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid recently awarded 15 states contracts of up to $1 million each to design new ways to improve and coordinate care for the 9 million people in the country who are beneficiaries of both Medicare and Medicaid.
The GOP has unveiled separate bills to repeal 'maintenance of effort' requirements for Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs - an action they say is necessary to help states balance their budgets in the face of ballooning healthcare costs.
A new study by the National Center for Policy Analysis shows that states and the federal government could save $33 billion in prescription medication costs by switching to models used by Medicare and other private payers.