Policy and Legislation
The Obama administration has given last-minute health insurance shoppers a two-day extension to buy coverage through Healthcare.gov.
A coalition of civil rights advocates Tuesday called for a federal investigation of California's Medicaid program, alleging that it discriminates against millions of low-income Latinos by denying them equal access to health care.
There's a prescription drug abuse problem sweeping the United States, but fixing it will require a systematic change focused on how most health professionals prescribe drugs, rather than changing the practices of a few bad apples.
Congress on Wednesday is considering legislation to allow physicians working in ambulatory surgical centers to receive the same payment incentives for meaningful use of electronic health records as doctors in other settings.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday proposed new rules to discharge planning requirements for long-term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, critical access hospitals and home health agencies.
The Department of Health and Human Services has issued guidance to states seeking a 1332 waiver to about every major component of the Affordable Care Act as the deadline for the new program approaches.
As the deadline for January health care coverage nears, California's insurance exchange is intensifying efforts to sign people up in pockets of the state with exceptionally high numbers of uninsured residents. Covered California is targeting such "hot spots" as San Francisco's Mission district, and Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood, officials said.
This week Connecticut's leaders had to close a $350 million hole in the state's budget. One place they cut is hospital funding, and that's making hospital executives furious.
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson this week released his healthcare platform, a plan for reform that he said would fix the relationship between physician and patient by providing tax-sheltered accounts and giving Medicare patients the onus to buy their own plans.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Thursday updated the quality scores for 40,000 physicians who shared benchmarks under the Physician Quality Reporting System, despite outcry by the American Medical Association that the data is incomplete.