Susan Morse
Rates not touched since economic downturn in 2008.
The U.S. House of Representatives has proposed a two-year suspension of the medical device tax and another two-year delay of the Cadillac tax on high-cost employer health plans.
The Obama administration has given last-minute health insurance shoppers a two-day extension to buy coverage through Healthcare.gov.
Congress on Wednesday is considering legislation to allow physicians working in ambulatory surgical centers to receive the same payment incentives for meaningful use of electronic health records as doctors in other settings.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday proposed new rules to discharge planning requirements for long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, critical access hospitals and home health agencies.
Kaiser Permanente Ventures is betting big on telemedicine, investing $10 million in Vidyo, a visual communications company that integrates high definition video communications into electronic health record systems and workflow, Vidyo announced Monday.
It's not about cost, but value, according to a panel of revenue cycle professionals who work in health systems that often charge more for care than other providers.
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued guidance to states seeking a 1332 waiver to about every major component of the Affordable Care Act as the deadline for the new program approaches.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson this week released his healthcare platform, a plan for reform that he said would fix the relationship between physician and patient by providing tax-sheltered accounts and giving Medicare patients the onus to buy their own plans.
As patients face high deductibles, price is a major topic that's put pressure on healthcare providers to offer price transparency, even though what a hospital charges can be far different from what a patient actually owes after their insurance covers some of the costs.