Policy and Legislation
Viral hashtag campaigns aren't new, but it's not often you see groundswell campaigns about healthcare management topics.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has a full schedule as 2014 ends, especially with the federal health insurance exchanges kicking off their open enrollment period.
Healthcare systems experimenting with a new way of being paid by Medicare would have three extra years before they could be punished for poor performance, the federal government proposed Monday.
The Obama administration took another step to close what many see as a health-law loophole that allows large employers to offer medical plans without hospital coverage and bars their workers from subsidies to buy their own insurance.
Earlier this month, CMS published its final rule to update the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and the Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System rates and policies for 2015. Here are the highlights.
An Arkansas Medicaid expansion policy may be threatened as new leadership heads to the state capital, despite early reports that show the program is benefiting low-income patients and hospitals alike.
As Medicaid enrollment tops 68 million in 2014, health systems are testing out new financing and delivery systems to handle the financial risk and reimbursement issues stemming from the surge.
A group of Wall Street analysts predicted Friday that enrollment in Affordable Care Act insurance plans will be higher than the 9 million projected by the Obama administration.
Dr. Oliver Korshin, a 71-year-old ophthalmologist in Anchorage, is not happy about the federal government's plan to have all physicians use electronic medical records or face a Medicare penalty.
The U.S. Census Bureau and Office of Management and Budget changed their urban and rural classification in several dozen regions around the country