Susan Morse
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.
Marketplace premiums rose by 8 percent last year, well below the double-digit rise predicted by some observers of Obamacare, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report released Tuesday.
The Affordable Care Act requires states to conduct third-party reviews of Medicaid eligibility before renewing coverage, but a new report by Georgetown University Health Policy Institute has found that legacy technology and a lack of communication can make that difficult.
Executives at University of Rochester Medical Center are so pleased with how the federal government's bundled payment joint replacement program is working that they want to expand it beyond Medicare, James Garnham, who heads bundled payments for the system, said Monday at a hearing on Capitol Hill.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday launched a new risk-based primary care initiative that it hopes will accelerate the movement towards value-based reimbursement for medical practices.
As cyberattacks of healthcare systems become more frequent and call attention to the question of whether sensitive data is secure, the Government Accountability Office has released a report identifying significant weaknesses at three selected state-based marketplaces: California, Kentucky and Vermont.