Policy and Legislation
A new Government Accountability Office report to the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee claims that federal rules may hinder states from applying to waive sections of the Affordable Care Act to make marketplace health insurance provisions more innovative.
In future rulemaking, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will propose that all issuers fund a small payment to the risk adjustment program to help marketplace insurers with high claims costs.
United States Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy is touring the nation to pressure drug prescribers to take an active role in the fight to end the opioid epidemic engulfing the country.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has updated its five-star quality ratings for nursing homes that will likely alter the current ratings.
The cost to implement information technology needed to meet federal mandates for value-based care is taking a financial toll on physician-owned multispecialty practices, according to the Medical Group Management Association.
This year's presidential campaign has become so chaotic it has prompted the president of the American Psychiatric Association to issue a reminder to professionals not to publicly analyze the candidates.
Even for states that have managed to institute some kind of method for consumers to compare prices for healthcare services, patients have few options for finding current pricing on common procedures. That's what a study from the nonprofit advocacy group Public Citizen shows.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has named the hospitals that will participate in their Frontier Community Health Integration Project Demonstration, also known as FCHIP, an initiative meant to increase access to healthcare in rural areas.
The agency is distributing close to $6 billion in uncompensated care payments over the next fiscal year, a decrease of about $400 million.
The money comes as the number of Zika-infected patients in Miami passed 10, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel warning to the area, and many people are blaming Congress for not acting earlier to fund Zika work.