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Policy and Legislation

By Tom Sullivan | 05:28 pm | April 24, 2012
A political debate is heating up in Connecticut as politicians consider the ramifications if the ACA is ruled unconstitutional.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 10:49 am | April 24, 2012
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.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 12:09 pm | April 23, 2012
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.
By Kelsey Brimmer | 02:34 pm | April 20, 2012
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.
By Bernie Monegain | 10:28 am | April 20, 2012
HHS settles with an Arizona physicians' practice for $100,000 over their failure to adequately protect patient health records.
By Stephanie Bouchard | 11:02 am | April 19, 2012
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.
By Kelsey Brimmer | 09:58 am | April 19, 2012
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.
By James Ellis and Aaron Razavi | 09:14 am | April 19, 2012
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.
By Rene Letourneau | 10:08 am | April 18, 2012
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.
By Mary Mosquera | 12:42 pm | April 17, 2012
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.