Policy and Legislation
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services should improve its process for physician quality reporting in order to make the reports more reliable, says Government Accountability Office.
he second of three federal Appeals Court decisions on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act was handed down on Friday, and it was a defeat for the Obama administration.
A federal appeals court in Atlanta concluded Friday that the individual mandate in the health reform law is unconstitutional and that it can be severed from the rest of the law. A lower court ruling held that the mandate was unconstitutional and could not be removed from the whole.
With the Congressional Super Committee charged with finding $1.5 trillion in budget cuts now named, healthcare organizations representing community care givers and nursing homes and long-term care insurance providers are stepping up to urge lawmakers to preserve funding for these vital health services.
After reading the July edition of Health Affairs, I’m concerned about the impact of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) on cost trends in the US health care system.
Primary care doctors are continuing to ramp up the pressure on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over how Medicare's physician payment rates are set. The latest volley is a suit filed by a group of primary care physicians from Georgia claiming CMS and HHS are violating federal laws by relying on the RUC.
The Physician Group Practice (PGP) demonstration project championed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has resulted in quality improvements and Medicare savings and resulted in $110 million in incentive payments CMS announced Monday.
Seeking to ward off more funding cuts in FY 2012, the National Association of Community Health Centers released a report Monday detailing why community health centers are a good deal.
Medicare payments to hospices will see a 2.5 percent increase in FY 2012 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in a final rule at the end of July. The final rule also implements Affordable Care Act requirements.
A Houston-area nursing home employee was arrested last week on charges of conspiracy, healthcare fraud and violations of the anti-kickback statute for unlawfully billing federal healthcare programs for ambulance transport, announced U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.