Kaiser Health News
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has discovered errors in its initial calculations in August. As a result, 1,422 hospitals with comparatively high readmission rates will lose slightly more money than they were expecting, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the revised penalties. Fifty-five hospitals will lose less than were previously told.
A report funded by the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association predicts that the 2 percent cuts to Medicare providers included in the "budget sequester" beginning in January will result in the loss of about 496,000 jobs during the first year of the automatic cuts.
Hitting the weekend political talk show circuit, GOP campaign officials sought to clarify the Republicans' position on health reform.
It may come as a surprise that President Barack Obama and GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan are pushing the same target rate for controlling federal spending on Medicare. Their approaches to curbing costs, however, are very different.
Survey respondents expect the trend of employers increasingly shifting health insurance cost to employees to continue.
A trio of conservative health economists say that while the 2010 federal health law aims to slow health spending through programs such as value-based purchasing and bundled payments, it fails to fundamentally alter the healthcare financing system.
The Massachusetts Legislature Tuesday passed the next phase of its ongoing attempt to reform the healthcare system: sweeping cost control legislation.
Massachusetts is aiming set the first statewide target for healthcare spending in the U.S. by holding healthcare cost increases to the same rate as the state's economy.
In what is shaping up as the first state-federal showdown on Medicaid following the Supreme Court's ruling on President Barack Obama's health law, Maine is moving ahead with plans to cut about 38,000 people from its rolls to balance its state budget.
The future of the nation's largest health insurance program -- Medicaid -- hangs in the balance of the Supreme Court's decision on the 2010 health law.