Policy and Legislation
President Barack Obama has signed into law a bill that clarifies the term "creditor" in the Red Flags Rule, excluding doctors and other small businesses.
A new report by the Government Accountability Office has found that the Federal Communications Commission is falling short on managing the telecommunication needs of rural healthcare providers.
My crystal ball is a little foggy so I decided to ask my Twitter followers to help compile a list of health care predictions for 2011. I've integrated my thoughts with theirs and organized the predictions into four themes.
Health organizations will undergo a strategy makeover in 2011 as they react to new rules and payment models, continuing cost pressures and new customer demands, according to the "Top Health Industry Issues of 2011," published today by PwC's Health Research Institute.
In staking out their position, many conservatives and most libertarians convey health care as a privilege, not a right. Fair enough.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will soon be outfitted with new state-of-the-art fraud fighting analytic tools to prevent wasteful and fraudulent payments in Medicare, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has announced it will begin using Medicare's standard payment rates for certain medical procedures performed by non-VA providers on Feb. 16, 2011.
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced new requirements for State Health Insurance Assistance Programs (SHIP) grants.
"Check Back in a Generation to See if the Health Law Withstands Challenge" suggests the New York Times in an insightful piece, which suggests Social Security as a useful comparison.
New data from the Standard & Poor's Healthcare Economic Composite Index indicates that the average per capita cost of healthcare services rose 6.70 percent over the 12 months ending October 2010, a deceleration from the 7.08 percent reported for the 12 months ending in September.