Policy and Legislation
A 25 percent cut in the Medicare physician payment rate, driven by the "sustainable growth rate" formula, looms Jan. 1 unless Congress takes action to avert. The American Medical Association's president believes a permanent solution is on the horizon.
It's a little sad to come back from a break and see the same game going on with GOP attempts to stop Obamacare, using the threat of a government shutdown to do it.
While ACOs are touted as a way to help fix an inefficient payment system that rewards more, not better, care, some economists warn they could lead to greater consolidation in the healthcare industry. Here are some answers to common questions about them.
Nancy-Ann DeParle may have left the Obama White House last January, but she did not leave healthcare behind. She spoke with HFN about her healthcare investing strategy as well as broader trends in the healthcare industry.
As healthcare costs for employers continue to rise, they are taking steps to control costs and manage risks.
A recent Moody’s Investment Service report says that several recent developments will likely have long-term consequences for the generic drug industry.
Despite the relatively weaker contribution of health employment growth to the current recovery, the health sector share of total employment is equal to 10.71 percent as of July 2013, barely below its all-time high rate.
The recent healthcare cost growth reduction is real, and it could be maintained because incentive structures have the potential to link the self-interest of all major health system stakeholders with the social interest in cost growth containment, quality improvement and better population health.
Five years from now no one will remember if their "Obamacare" health insurance exchange launched on October 1.
An army is amassing – composed of payers, providers, healthcare organizations, businesses, community and consumer groups – to help educate and guide a large part of the population to sign up for coverage on the health insurance exchanges.