Policy and Legislation
The Health Impact Project, a collaboration of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Pew Charitable Trusts, is accepting proposals for grants to conduct health impact assessments.
Those familiar with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Recovery Audit Contractor program say the RAC audits haven't been as bad as was predicted when the controversial program was launched in late 2009.
HHS's bellwether decision of last week to grant the State of Maine a three-year waiver from the medical loss ratio provision of the ACA may lead to new efforts by insurers across the country to persuade states to demand similar waivers.
Two cover stories in this week’s Time magazine debate a provocative question: Is America in decline?
Congressmen Charles Boustany (R-La.) and John Larson (D-Conn.) have introduced a bill that would allow consumers more time to withdraw and pay taxes on their medical flexible spending accounts instead of forfeiting the remaining balance to their employer at the end of each year, as current rules require.
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative has launched a new Center for Accountable Care. The goal, according to PCPCC officials, is to help ensure that a strong, robust, patient-centered primary care model is at the foundation of accountable care organizations nationwide as a way to deliver better care and lower costs.
It has been nearly one year since President Obama signed healthcare reform into law, and it appears many people are more confused and stressed about the future of healthcare than when we first started down this path.
The Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury have proposed new rules to help states receive a State Innovation Waiver under the Affordable Care Act.
A health insurance broker told a House committee that administrative burdens caused by health reform could prompt employers to drop health insurance benefits in 2014, when federal insurance exchanges are scheduled to open.
The Department of Health & Human Services is granting a waiver to Maine health insurers, giving them three years to meet the 80 percent medical loss ratio required under health reform.