Susan Morse
UnitedHealth Group is exiting the Affordable Care Act markets in Michigan, Oklahoma and other areas citing a lack of profitability.
A single, coordinated approach to performance reporting is needed to make promised Medicare payment reforms work, the American Medical Association and other physician groups are expected to tell lawmakers Tuesday morning during a Subcommittee on Health hearing on Capitol Hill.
Rule affects 3,330 acute care hospitals, 430 long-term care hospitals.
The more than 1,500 healthcare providers taking part in the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement initiative may extend their participation in Models 2, 3 and 4 through September 30, 2018, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
A Chicago couple used their healthcare business to bilk Medicare out of $45 million while also conspiring to force a housekeeper to work against her will, according to an indictment returned this week in federal court in Chicago.
Accountable care organizations that participated in the first full year of Medicare Shared Savings saw early reductions in spending that eroded a year later, according to a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
While support for the provisions of the ACA are on the rise, along with a willingness to let the law work instead of repealing it, individual opinions are more strongly influenced by party identification and their trust in government.
Dozens of medical organizations and consumer advocacy groups have sent a letter to the Joint Commission, and a petition to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services asking for policy changes in an effort to reduce the over-prescribing of opioid pain relievers, according to Public Citizen, one of the groups involved.
Physician and pain clinic owner Paramjit Singh Ajrawat, 60, of Potomac, Maryland, has been ordered to repay $3.1 million from a healthcare fraud scheme in which he filed fake insurance claims, according to the U.S. District Attorney's Office in Maryland.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center employees plan to walk off their jobs on Thursday to protest the hospital's alleged harassing of workers who want to form a union and to call for an immediate hike of the system's minimum wage to $15 an hour, according to the Service Employees International Union.