Policy and Legislation
More than half of health system and insurance executives recently surveyed by KPMG, law firm Epstein Becker Green and The JHD Group indicated they are still undecided about whether their organizations will participate in the Medicare ACO program.
The Affordable Care Act gets its day in the Supreme Court, which will consider challenges to required insurance and expanded state Medicaid coverage.
High hospital readmission rates among Medicare patients are closely tied to higher overall hospital admission rates, according to a study published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine.
To understand just how problematic the current hospital drug shortage is, all you need to do is take a look at how it is impacting patients.
As President Barack Obama noted Thursday when introducing proposed regulations for minimum wage and overtime protection for home healthcare workers, the home healthcare workforce is the largest and fastest growing in the country. A new analysis finds that required training for some of these workers has gone largely unchanged in almost 25 years.
HHS said its approach is designed to make sure that consumers have quality and affordable coverage starting in 2014.
Last week, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction - better known to most as the Supercommittee - announced that it would not be able to reach a compromise for federal budget cuts of $1.2 trillion by its set Thanksgiving deadline.
President Barack Obama yesterday gave home healthcare workers a boost of confidence when he announced his administration is proposing minimum wage and overtime protections for the country's nearly 2 million home care workers.
The Bipartisan Options for the Future white paper by Ron Wyden (Senate Democrat from Oregon) and Paul Ryan (Republican Congressman from Wisconsin) is billed as a bold move to reform Medicare.
Two months past deadline, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a proposed rule offering guidelines for how drug and device makers will report their contracts with physicians.