Policy and Legislation
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) announced last week a three-year demonstration project that will take place in four counties aimed at improving care coordination for seniors and persons with disabilities who are dually eligible for Medicare and the state's Medicaid insurance program Medi-Cal.
The fragmented delivery of care and the number of providers involved in a patient's episode of care erects barriers to be able to effectively coordinate care, said the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission during a meeting last Friday.
There are many "first woman to" accomplishments on Christine Cassel's resume but she is best known as an expert on geriatric medicine and a proponent of professional certification.
The nullification of the 2010 healthcare law currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court would be a credit negative for for-profit hospital operators, according to Moody's Investors Service.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded 10 states nearly $72 million in grants to provide early childhood supports and home visits to families who volunteer to receive these services, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday.
Speaking at the HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas earlier this year, National Quality Forum President and CEO Janet Corrigan said quality measures are essential tools to help "move forward in building high-value health systems," and to bring about "fundamental reform" across the care delivery spectrum.
A new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and The Washington Post shows that the Supreme Court hearings last week on the Affordable Care Act damaged the opinion people have of both the court and the law.
By a vote of 3-1 the commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission have given the go-ahead for pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts to complete its $29 billion merger with rival PBM Medco.
Kativa Patel, MD, has her feet planted in both the clinical world of healthcare and the policy one. She is a primary care internist who shaped policy at the White House and continues to shape the conversation around healthcare on a national level in a variety of roles.
If the Supreme Court follows its usual schedule, by the end of today nine people will know the fate of the Affordable Care Act and the individual mandate. It will likely be nearly three months before the rest of us know how the Justices voted today.