Kaiser Health News

A multi-billion dollar federal initiative to move low-income elderly and disabled people from long-term care facilities into the community has fallen far short of its goals, as many states have struggled to cobble together housing and other services.

Medicare plans on using resource use reports to tie physician reimbursement to quality and costs of care.

Later this month, just as the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on the 2010 health law, the House is expected to pass a measure that would repeal an advisory board created in the law to curb Medicare spending if it exceeds specific targets.

Friday was Donald Berwick's last day as administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.