Medicare & Medicaid
The biggest worry is that hospitals and physicians could bear the cost of uncompensated care the way they did before passage of the ACA.
The bill would give the states the ability to pull Medicaid enrollees from the program by counting their lottery winnings as income.
The authors estimated that 12 percent of telehealth visits replaced visits to other providers, while 88 percent represented new utilization.
The former head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services breaks down problem he sees with bill in 25-part Twitter thread.
Beginning in 2020, the GOP plan would provide tax credits to help people pay for health insurance based on household income and age, with a limit of $14,000 per family.
Audit found WellCare didn't inform beneficiaries about coverage for certain prescription drugs, and denied prescription coverage, CMS says.
Wisconsin's average penalty for 2017 will be 0.33 percent, which ranks the state at 17th when compared to other states.
Study should ease concerns that the health law will exacerbate the shortage of primary care providers, study author says.
If adopted, the bill would repeal sections of the ACA that, since 2011, prevented new physician-owned hospitals from participating in Medicare.
Democrats say the nominee did not give many specifics in her survey answers.