Policy and Legislation
Most of the recent public attention paid to the federal Medicaid program has focused on the question of whether or not states will participate in the program’s expansion as allowed in the Affordable Care Act.
The Medicare trust fund would be quite a few billion dollars smaller without the contributions of immigrants -- especially those in the U.S. illegally, the source of fractious debate in current immigration reform legislation.
Final rule clarifies design of employee wellness programs and increases reward rate for outcome-based health programs.
I have to say I was surprised with the press reports last week that there wasn't "rate shock" in California when the California exchange offered preliminary information about their new plans and rates.
Last week, Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas announced an agreement to pay a $1.4 million settlement to the United States Department of Justice over Medicare and Medicaid fraud allegations.
Price transparency is a touchy subject in healthcare, and experts are divided on how much value exposing prices has for consumers and how much impact it would have on the industry.
Medicaid coverage alone is no guarantee of improved health outcomes, but researchers found that expanding Medicaid in Oregon reduced depression and eliminated out-of-pocket costs for its low-income enrollees.
When President Barack Obama released his fiscal year 2014 budget proposal in April, John Lozier, executive director of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC), became immediately concerned that not enough is being done at the federal level to resolve the on-going homelessness epidemic.
After an 18-month wait, a was confirmed by the Senate as CMS administrator on Wednesday and was broadly hailed by nearly all corners of the industry.
Healthcare spending in the U.S. is out of control and part of the reason for the approaching train wreck is that decision makers place too much trust in people's ability to think rationally. At least that’s the conclusion of a recent analysis in Health Affairs. Part of the solution, according to the report, rests in a deeper understanding of behavioral economics.