Medicare & Medicaid
With a backlog of patients, home health services are limited by their ability to attract and recruit quality staff.
Healthcare spending grew 2.1% faster than economy, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services releases in 2015 national health expenditures.
Changes to CMMI could drag down advanced alternative payment approaches, create narrower path with fewer specialty options and approaches.
Law has brought coverage to tens of thousands of previously uninsured shooting victims, often young African-American men, who missed follow-up care.
Nina Owcharenko leads Heritage's Center for Health Policy studies; Scott Gottlieb is former FDA deputy commissioner.
Providers have been waiting years for payments, applications for benefits have been stalled up to a year, lead attorney says.
Every older adult admitted to a hospital as an inpatient has the right to challenge a discharge if he or she feels unprepared to leave.
State says the funding will help it invest in partnerships between public higher education institutions and healthcare providers.
Since those margins and fundraising capabilities are higher, children's hospitals also tend to have higher liquidity, Moody's found.
Indiana's unique Medicaid expansion, which she helped create, was designed to appeal to conservatives.