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The Senate Finance Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday, beginning at 10 a.m., to consider President Barack Obama's nomination of Marilyn B. Tavenner for administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
States should start tracking self-funding and stop-loss trends, as some self-funding employers may be exposing themselves to high financial and legal risk, a new report from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute and the Urban Institute suggests.
Consumer directed health plans (CDHPs) that offer low premiums and high deductibles have long been touted as a way to encourage consumers to shop for the best healthcare prices since more of their money is at stake. But that assumption may not be true according to new research from the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and the RAND Corp.
Regulators in some states are trying to prevent insurers from getting around the health law by extending potentially cheaper, but more limited policies for another year, but other states are giving the firms leeway.
The U.S. healthcare system is going to have to gain control over unnecessary spending said Don Berwick and Rosemary Gibson during their respective keynotes at a conference last week for healthcare stakeholders in Maine.
As mobile health gains ground as a way to improve population health and curb healthcare costs, models for making mHealth financially sustainable are topmost in the minds of stakeholders in the U.S. and across the globe.
Florida and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) need to determine whether the state should repay the federal government for $12 million in Medicaid overpayments, the Department of Health and Human Services' Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recommends in a new report.
A new report from the Urban Institute shows that the financial burden of out-of-pocket medical costs vary widely from state to state -- and regionally -- and offers a first-of-its-kind look at which state's residents could most benefit from Medicaid expansion.
For several years now Truman Medical Centers (TMC), a two-hospital system based in Kansas City, Mo., has been finding ways to encourage healthy living for its high proportion of patients in the community with chronic health problems like diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure and obesity. TMC's latest effort? A healthy foods grocery store.
With recent studies indicating that music reduces agitation and depression in people with dementia and Alzheimer's disease, long-term care operators have begun adding music therapy programs to the services they offer residents. One operator is finding that using music therapy is benefitting the business as well as the residents.