Policy and Legislation
A political debate is heating up in Connecticut as politicians consider the ramifications if the ACA is ruled unconstitutional.
The forecast for the Medicare program remains the same as last year, with the program expected to remain solvent until 2024. But the program's solvency depends on several financial and political assumptions that are unpredictable.
A new report indicates that the Affordable Care Act will save Medicare more than $200 billion through 2016, announced the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Monday.
According to a new Commonwealth Fund study, one in four working-age U.S. adults experienced a gap in health insurance coverage during 2011, in many cases because they lost or changed jobs.
HHS settles with an Arizona physicians' practice for $100,000 over their failure to adequately protect patient health records.
Employers and the National Labor Relations Board may have thought that a new posting rule would go into effect at the end of April, but an injunction issued Tuesday has put the implementation of the new rule on ice.
According to a report released Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Services, patients with Medicare are starting to save money on durable medical equipment (DME) through the Medicare competitive bidding program.
As the dynamics of healthcare continue evolving, all parties involved from hospitals, to investors, to practitioners, will be better positioned to survive if they understand the trends taking place.
Led by the Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS), six healthcare organizations today announced the start of a major initiative to improve the medical liability system in the state.
With Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney frequently reasserting his plans to sign an Executive Order to grant all 50 states waivers that essentially serve as get-out-of-health-insurance-exchange-free cards, if he's elected, the future of HIX appears troubled.