Healthcare Finance Staff
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is expected to make health coverage available to an estimated 32 million people nationwide and to enable consumers to be screened simultaneously for private coverage as well as Medicaid, CHIP and tax-based subsidies.
The Supreme Court justices listened to arguments March 26 about whether or not they have jurisdiction in the lawsuit brought by 26 states led by Florida against the federal government over the constitutionality of the health reform law.
The government's Office of the Inspector General has found that Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital received $1.5 million in overpayments because the hospital didn't fully understand Medicare billing requirements.
Many of us are eagerly anticipating the Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which President Obama signed into law on March 23, 2010.
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.
Campaigning in Louisiana before the primary there, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney sounded a lot like arch rival Rick Santorum on healthcare.
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.
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.