Medicare & Medicaid

These awards build on the $101 million awarded to 164 new health center sites in May 2015, bringing the total to 700 sites established with Affordable Care Act funding.

An estimated 45,000 American adults die each year because they have no health insurance, according a 2009 study in the American Journal of Public Health.

Iowa's governor, Republican Terry Branstad, is moving full speed ahead with a plan to put private companies in charge of managing Medicaid's services.

Medicaid paid $7.4 million to 94 providers for services performed by providers that had been barred for reasons such as fraud, waste or quality.

The overwhelming majority of patients were not homebound and did not need home health services, according to authorities.

The worst-offending hospitals will see their Medicare reimbursements slashed by as much as 3 percent, though many on the list will be penalized less than 1 percent.

Last December, a 37-year-old patient with dissociative disorder died after hanging herself with a bedsheet and closet doorknob, a suicide that could have been prevented if Timberlawn used best practices.

Since the fines began, national readmission rates have dropped, but roughly one of every five Medicare patients sent to the hospital ends up returning within a month.

While hospitals in Maryland have not brought down the state's total costs of care, the all-payer system seems promising enough to state and federal leaders under universal healthcare coverage.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will lift the rate it pays inpatient hospitals in 2016 by 0.9 percent, the agency announced Friday, as long as facilities participate in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and demonstrate meaningful use through the use of electronic health records.