Policy and Legislation
A.M. Best announced Monday that it is maintaining a negative outlook for the health insurance industry.
With unemployment high and state budgets tight, a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured found nearly all states maintained or made targeted expansions of their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program eligibility and enrollment rules in 2010.
Nearly one in three doctors cite practice management costs and administrative burdens as a chief concern for their practice, according to a new survey.
A proposal by Holy Cross Hospital to build a new hospital in Maryland's hotly contested Montgomery County is being challenged by a rival hospital with similar plans - and concerns that religious directives could get in the way of providing certain community services.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has postponed Wednesday's vote on a bill to repeal healthcare reform following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others at a public event Saturday in Tucson.
Tenet Healthcare has adopted a new stockholder rights plan - a so-called "poison pill" - in an attempt to thwart a hostile takeover by Community Health Systems.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's Annual Conference and Exhibition, which attracts 30,000 attendees each year, will return to Chicago in 2015 and 2019, President and CEO H. Stephen Lieber announced Monday at a news conference at McCormick Place.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule for hospital inpatient value-based purchasing that is intended to reward hospitals for meeting and exceeding quality and safety measures.
Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) announced Thursday that the committee will hold hearings to examine how the health reform law benefits Americans.
The New York Times headline was "Health Spending Rose in '09, but at Low Rate," but it could just as appropriately have been "Health Spending in '09 Took Biggest Jump Ever in GDP Share."