Policy and Legislation

Mental health clinics, psychologists and psychiatric hospitals were left out of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Program, and it's cost them.

Lobbyists for the medical device makers handed out nearly $33 million in 2014 to politicians supporting bills to repeal the medical device tax.

Office of the Inspector General report said Medicare could have saved $4.1 billion between 2005 and 2010 if critical access hospitals were being paid for swing-bed skilled nursing services at the same rates as skilled nursing facilities.

Bill reduces funding for critical access hospitals treating uninsured patients from $5 million to $1 million.

Opening arguments give glimpse of where Justices stand as hospitals, states and organizations call for the law to stay.

Healthcare leaders and millions of customers insured by federal exchanges will be watching Washington closely on Wednesday as oral arguments take place on King Vs. Burwell.

If the court rules against the Obama administration, those subsidies could be cut off for everyone in the three dozen states using healthcare.gov.

Department of Health and Human Services shifted millions of dollars last year from those agencies to help pay the $1.4 billion cost of running the insurance marketplaces in 37 states, according to an HHS spending document.

Result of King vs. Burwell will not end the health law, says Anil Joseph, managing director for the Investment Research Group at GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services.

One analysis projects that unsubsidized premiums could increase by almost half -- an average annual increase of $1,600 for a 40-year-old.