Policy and Legislation
Brokers holding their breath to see if their compensation will be removed from the medical loss ratio formula required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be turning a darker shade of blue.
The HIMSS Medical Banking Project G7 Roundtable, a specialized think-tank of healthcare stakeholders, has released two new reports on accountable care organizations and real time adjudication of claims.
Consumer Watchdog, a non-partisan consumer advocacy group, announced Tuesday that it has called on the Obama administration to make health reform waivers "the exception, not the rule."
A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation on the effects of raising Medicare's eligibility age to 67 in 2014 shows that while the federal government would achieve $7.5 billion in savings, the move would also result in $10.1 billion in extra costs for 65- and 66-year-olds and employer-sponsored retiree healthcare costs.
Medicare is the ever-growing elephant dragging the country under, so I’m pleased to see that its beneficiaries are starting to feel a bit of a squeeze.
The current healthcare system is a "graveyard," says Paul Grundy, MD, president of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative, but he has a roadmap that will take the country to the promised land.
News about the millions of Americans, especially children, who have no health insurance regularly makes headlines. It is easy to assume that whatever gaps are currently found in coverage nationwide will be filled in by healthcare reform.
When the National Resident Matching Program announced earlier this month that for two years running the number of U.S. medical student seniors who will train as family medicine residents rose, the clamor began: Does this indicate a trend? Will the worries about a shortage of primary care physicians be dispelled?
Thomson Reuters has released its annual study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on their overall organizational performance in 10 key areas.
What a year it has been for the Affordable Care Act. In commemoration of the law's first birthday on March 23, I offer you a glimpse of the year in quotes.