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Much of the focus in Washington has been on fixing Social Security's retirement system, but the disability system is in much worse shape. The trust fund that supports disability benefits will run out of money by 2017, according to new estimates.
Ignoring months of protests, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced Friday the next steps for an expansion of a competitive bidding program designed to help lower costs for quality durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies.
Quality improvements and lower costs have been touted as benefits of hospital-physician alignment, but such results are not guaranteed says a briefing released by the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC), a nonpartisan health policy research organization.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will use the cloud computing services of Terremark Federal Group Inc., of Herndon, Va., to support its Healthcare.gov plan finder and the system demands of the health insurance exchange program being created in the 50 states.
A new survey by the National Business Group on Health shows that most large employers plan to ask employees to share a greater portion of the costs for health benefits in 2012. Employers are also increasingly turning to consumer driven health plans in an effort to control costs.
A lot of rebuilding has been happening in Joplin, Mo., following the May 22 tornado that devastated the community. Soon to be added to the lengthy list of projects is a new hospital to replace the destroyed St. John's Regional Medical Center.
Mike Fogarty, CEO of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (OKHCA) says, with a new electronic application system in place, Oklahoma is ready for the onslaught of Medicaid enrollment that is expected in 2014.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Thursday $40 million in grants for efforts to identify and enroll children eligible for Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Overall U.S. healthcare prices increased in July 2011, rising 0.4 percent, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Western Missouri and Kansas filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging a new Kansas state law prohibiting insurance companies from providing abortion coverage in their health plans.