Policy and Legislation

Despite efforts by insurers to make prices available, shopping for healthcare services isn't as user-friendly as buying something on Amazon.

The new consumer-focused website compares hospice agencies with self-reported quality reporting which some experts say has limited utility.

Number of people uninsured would be slightly higher in 2018 but slightly lower starting in 2020, report also says.

The new bundled payment model for cardiac care coordination and cardiac rehabilitation may be on the chopping block, along with unspecified changes to the joint replacement model, according to a proposed rule published August 10 in the Office of Management and Budget.

Nationwide, about one percent of Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in 2016 received advance-care planning talks, according to health policy analysts.

Rising costs for 313 brand-name drugs lifted Medicaid's spending by as much as $3.2 billion in 2016.

Insurers assuming CSRs will end have factored in rate increases of an additional 2 to 23 percent, says a Kaiser Family Foundation report.

A new Kaiser Family Foundation survey finds almost 6 in 10 people think the Republicans should work with Democrats to improve the health law.

The Texas physician is the president's choice for assistant secretary of health but Senate Democrats say Giroir's testimony left them skeptical that he would support women's health programs.

Following major price increases, use of the two cardiac medicines has dramatically decreased at 47 hospitals, according to new research.