Policy and Legislation
A series of new reports from the RAND Corporation outlines the impact that national healthcare reform will have on individual states, estimating the increased costs and coverage that are expected in five diverse states once reform is fully implemented in 2016.
Recently, the Archives of Internal Medicine published a report regarding conflicts of interest in cardiovascular practice guidelines. As revealed in this report, a majority of doctors who helped draft these guidelines received payments from drug and device companies, and many physicians were stockholders in these companies
A Republican budget proposal for 2012, to be presented to Congress this week, seeks to save more than $4 trillion over the next 10 years and would dramatically alter how the government funds both Medicare and Medicaid.
As the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act celebrates its one-year anniversary, a controversial medical devices tax included in the law hasn't been forgotten by those most likely to be affected by it.
Sometimes, in the middle of a hotly-argued partisan battle, it can make sense to look at the opinions of more distant and possibly more objective observers. When the battle involves American politics, the international press sometimes offers valuable—and possibly more realistic—perspectives than those available to readers and viewers of domestic media.
Merger and acquisition activity in the health care industry's service sectors burgeoned in 2010 as the impact of the credit crunch and Great Recession on the economy began to fade says the seventeenth edition of Irving Levin Associates' "The Health Care Services Acquisition Report."
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is seeking feedback from 51 medical associations on how to fix the Sustainable Growth Rate - the formula used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to control Medicare payments to physicians.
The new proposed regulations on accountable care organizations, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services, launch one of the first delivery-reform initiatives to be implemented under the Accountable Care Act.
Florida's Senate Health Regulation Committee unanimously approved a bill yesterday that would shift the bulk of the state's Medicaid recipients into HMOs and other types of managed-care organizations.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released regulations today on accountable care organizations (ACOs). The rules will guide provider organizations in setting up exchanges of healthcare data to improve care and reduce costs, as mandated under the Affordable Care Act.