Policy and Legislation
Hospitals are cutting their operating costs in order to adjust to reduced revenues as Medicare tightens payments.
As a business owner I’m enthusiastic about the idea of government policies that promote economic growth. But I’m disappointed to hear the term “pro-growth” used as a label for policies that reduce taxes, restrict social programs, and reject the Affordable Care Act.
The two-midnight rule has the potential to increase hospital revenues from observation status patients but that revenue will be offset by shorter inpatient stays.
With the difficulties that individuals have already faced in trying to access, shop and enroll online in the health insurance exchanges attracting most of the roll-out attention, it’s easy to forget that every new major online venture also opens consumers to the possibility of fraud.
Pent-up demand for health insurance and curiosity about what the exchanges have to offer proved too much for the federal and many state systems to handle upon opening of the health insurance marketplaces.
The healthcare system has been pretty much a business-to-business sector, but from October, two big things change. Millions of unpredictable individuals enter the market as consumers, and the underlying risk calculation shifts from one that is largely clear and underwritten, to one that depends on a precarious balance.
A new study indicates that 518 community health centers in the more than two dozen states not expanding Medicaid will lose out on $555 million next year.
A Wall Street Journal article caught my eye, since it seemed to report that the Affordable Care Act was making it hard to raise money. But as I read further into it there seems to be nothing really there.
An 18-wheeler roars off into mountainous terrain with engine and transmission going full fury, but with the brakes lying on the repair shop floor. Welcome to Obamacare 2014.
As Republicans and Democrats have battled over reopening the federal government and raising the federal debt ceiling, one idea that keeps coming up is a repeal of the 2010 health law's tax on medical devices.