Policy and Legislation
The nullification of the 2010 healthcare law currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court would be a credit negative for for-profit hospital operators, according to Moody's Investors Service.
The U.S. Supreme Court has completed three days of hearing oral arguments as part of the judicial process of determining the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act. With all of the controversy and media frenzy it might benefit all of us to step back and put this entire issue in some sort of perspective.
Hospitals and systems are at more financial risk than ever for care costs and quality due to the Affordable Care Act.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded 10 states nearly $72 million in grants to provide early childhood supports and home visits to families who volunteer to receive these services, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Tuesday.
Speaking at the HIMSS Conference & Exhibition in Las Vegas earlier this year, National Quality Forum President and CEO Janet Corrigan said quality measures are essential tools to help "move forward in building high-value health systems," and to bring about "fundamental reform" across the care delivery spectrum.
A new poll from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and The Washington Post shows that the Supreme Court hearings last week on the Affordable Care Act damaged the opinion people have of both the court and the law.
Republican Senators Alexander, Johanns, Hoeven and Risch – all of whom have been state governors – unleash an attack on ObamaCare from the perspective of state budgets and argue that the law should be repealed (assuming it’s not declared unconstitutional of course).
By a vote of 3-1 the commissioners of the Federal Trade Commission have given the go-ahead for pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts to complete its $29 billion merger with rival PBM Medco.
Kativa Patel, MD, has her feet planted in both the clinical world of healthcare and the policy one. She is a primary care internist who shaped policy at the White House and continues to shape the conversation around healthcare on a national level in a variety of roles.
In Friday's healthcare IT social media chat, sponsored by HL7 Standards, the question was proposed: If part or all of the ACA is struck down, what happens to ACOs? Here is a Twitter recap of the chatter.