Policy and Legislation
The efforts to curtail healthcare fraud have returned $4.1 billion to U.S. taxpayers in 2011, says a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice.
Will CMS postpone the ICD-10 deadline? According to Marilyn Tavenner, acting CMS Administrator, it's possible.
The fight over ICD-10 continued on Tuesday as CMS acting administrator Marilyn Tavenner said at an AMA meeting that CMS wants to reexamine the pace of implementing ICD-10.
The fiscal year 2013 U.S. Health and Human Services budget strives to make wise investments while being fiscally responsible, HHS officials said yesterday during a live web broadcast announcing its budget proposal.
The Congressional Budget Office’s January issue brief on the failure of almost all of more than thirty Medicare demonstration projects to cut costs generated considerable discussion.
Health insurers will now be required to publish marketing materials in plain language and eliminate the technical or confusing language that can often make if difficult for consumers to understand exactly what they are buying, under a new provision of health reform.
In a recent WIHI radio show titled "The Social Imperative to Demonstrate That Better Care Equals Lower Costs," Donald Berwick, MD, former administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and Gerry Shea, assistant to the president for governmental affairs at the AFL-CIO, spoke on the climbing costs associated with today's healthcare system.
The Department of Health and Human Services granted more than $40 million to fund the Strong Start initiative aimed at reducing the number of preterm births in America, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Thursday.
An amicus brief filed with the United States Supreme Court by America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association contends that certain market reforms contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are directly linked and must also be severed from the law if the justices find the individual insurance mandate unconstitutional.
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in early January struck down a state law in effect since 2009 that barred some legal immigrants residing in the state from receiving subsidized health insurance coverage.