Policy and Legislation
The Medicare Trustees have projected in their annual report that the program's hospital insurance trust fund will remain solvent until 2026, two years later than predicted last year, but with many uncertainties impacting the program, they urge reform.
As the country gets ready for the roll out of the major components of the Affordable Care Act, stakeholders can look to Massachusetts, where healthcare reform was enacted seven years ago. The second installment of PwC Health Research Institute's The Massachusetts Experience, released Thursday, provides analysis on the effects of rapid insurance coverage expansion on health payers and providers in the state.
Possible changes are coming to how leases are accounted for on corporate balance sheets. Here's what you need to know.
Evan Schwartz, founding partner of New York-based law firm Quadrino Schwartz, said his organization used to see the occasional case of private insurers retrospectively auditing health care providers – they only litigated about 10 or so each year.
Most of the recent public attention paid to the federal Medicaid program has focused on the question of whether or not states will participate in the program’s expansion as allowed in the Affordable Care Act.
The Medicare trust fund would be quite a few billion dollars smaller without the contributions of immigrants -- especially those in the U.S. illegally, the source of fractious debate in current immigration reform legislation.
Final rule clarifies design of employee wellness programs and increases reward rate for outcome-based health programs.
I have to say I was surprised with the press reports last week that there wasn't "rate shock" in California when the California exchange offered preliminary information about their new plans and rates.
Last week, Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas announced an agreement to pay a $1.4 million settlement to the United States Department of Justice over Medicare and Medicaid fraud allegations.
Price transparency is a touchy subject in healthcare, and experts are divided on how much value exposing prices has for consumers and how much impact it would have on the industry.