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Under pressure from the industry and Congress, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is withdrawing several proposed changes to the Medicare drug program, but still charging ahead with others that could prove disruptive.
After a one year delay, the federal government is giving states a framework to create insurance programs for low-income residents earning above the Medicaid eligibility threshold, potentially encouraging more experimentation with public payer policies.
While many states have been challenged to expand their insured populations in ways encouraged by the Affordable Care Act, Ohio and Kentucky have leveraged their distinctive political and business climates to find early success.
Some states have found practical success in establishing the Affordable Care Act, but what distinguishes their efforts are their unique fit within each state's distinctive political and business climates.
With the rise of value-based payment and care models, long-term hospital viability may depend on not only getting a better handle on costs, but also being able to link them to outcomes. To achieve this, hospitals need cost accounting on steroids.
Our weekly look at career moves in the healthcare finance sector. This issue highlights promotions, hires and fires for the week ending March 7, 2014.
Humana is naming a healthcare outsider as its next chief innovation officer, just as executives are looking for breakthroughs from recent acquisitions.
The nation's overall employment numbers beat economists' expectations in February, but healthcare sector job growth seems to have stalled.
Some of the nation's largest pharmaceutical companies have slashed payments to health professionals for promotional speeches amid heightened public scrutiny of such spending.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' proposal to mandate broader provider networks in public insurance exchanges could have the unintended consequence of discouraging insurer participation, according to analysts at Moody's.