Chris Anderson
Researchers from global consulting company PwC say providers and insurers have ample opportunities, but also significant challenges in serving the roughly 30 million people who will become newly insured through Medicaid expansion and via the health insurance exchanges in the coming years.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) announced it was granting $40.7 million over three years to fund patient-centered comparative effectiveness research in the first four areas of its National Priorities for Research and Research Agenda.
The Alliance of Specialty Medicine joined a number of other medical organizations as it called on Congress to permanently fix the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) Medicare payment formula as part of any legislation designed to avert the fiscal cliff.
Eleven Republican governors sent a letter to President Barack Obama Thursday requesting a meeting to discuss the details and costs associated with Medicaid expansion as outlined in the Affordable Care Act.
A new report from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions estimates that the total of all U.S. health-related expenditures in 2010 totaled $3.2 trillion or about 23 percent higher than reported in the National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA).
More than 350 healthcare, patient, veterans and business organizations on Tuesday urged Congressional leaders to reject any proposal to turn the Medicare Part D plan into one that resembles the rebates structure of Medicaid drug programs.
Acting CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and other CMS officials announced on Monday that states which embark on a partial expansion of their Medicaid systems would not qualify for the full 100 percent funding under the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion provision.
Saying the federal government hasn't done enough to provide concrete parameters for establishing health insurance exchange, Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday vetoed state legislation that would have created a state-run HIX in New Jersey.
Despite the economic downturn, the number of uninsured children eligible for Medicaid and CHIP programs fell to 4.4 million in 2010, a 10 percent decrease from the 4.9 million who were uninsured in 2008, according to an analysis of government data released recently by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Increased adoption of consumer-directed health plans (CDHPs) and an increased emphasis on employee health management programs helped U.S. employers hold their health benefit cost increases to an average of 4.1 percent in 2012, the lowest average annual increase since 1997, according to a new survey from global consulting firm Mercer.