Policy and Legislation
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, is pressuring the Obama administration to defend how it has spent money fighting Medicare fraud.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced that registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opens January 3. Eligible professionals, hospitals and critical access hospitals must use certified EHR technology to be eligible.
Before I worked for a carrier I’d often wonder if the folks who write health plan benefit descriptions go to a special school that teaches them how to write these documents in as confusing and obtuse a manner as possible. After all, each carrier writes documents in their own way sometimes using the same or similar terms to mean something different.
According to a new study, one in six physicians in 2008 reported that their practice owned or leased advanced imaging equipment.
In a war of words that has implications for Pennsylvania's budget crisis, Governor Edward Rendell on Monday released data from a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report that showed the state's Medicaid error rate was 4.07 percent, much lower than the rate in excess of 15 percent claimed last month by Auditor General Jack Wagner.
Despite tort reform efforts aimed at reducing malpractice risk, a recent study indicates physicians are still worried about lawsuits, leading them to practice defensive medicine and driving up healthcare costs.
Three U.S. District judges presiding over legal challenges to the landmark federal healthcare law have held financial investments in the healthcare industry, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of their latest available financial disclosure forms.
Included in the latest Benefits Package blog carnival is a piece from Joe Paduda's Managed Care Matters, criticizing health plans and their industry groups for their contradictory attitudes to escalating hospital costs and government involvement in the health care system.
Americans' confidence in their ability to obtain and afford healthcare continued its decline in November, according to a consumer sentiment index by Thomson Reuters.
The Department of Health and Human Services has proposed new rules aimed at delivering new transparency and scrutiny to health insurance rate increases. Under the proposed rules the HHS will work with states to require health insurers to provide information for "unreasonable" rate hikes.