Policy and Legislation

The term “parsimonious” has generated a lot of pushback. That’s not unexpected, because policymakers, the health care industry and consumers continue to studiously avoid serious discussions of cost.

Doctors are once again facing a postponement of a Medicare payment cut under a deal brokered by the House-Senate committee charged with writing a bill extending the payroll tax reduction.

The Affordable Care Act provided approximately 54 million Americans with at least one new free preventive service in 2011 through their private health insurance plans, Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services secretary, announced Wednesday.

Don't cancel your next ICD-10 steering committee meeting.

With hospital budgets relatively flat from last year for new construction, according to a Health Facilities Management/ASHE 2011 survey, healthcare reform is having a considerable impact on how hospitals are deciding to move forward with construction projects.

The efforts to curtail healthcare fraud have returned $4.1 billion to U.S. taxpayers in 2011, says a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice.

Will CMS postpone the ICD-10 deadline? According to Marilyn Tavenner, acting CMS Administrator, it's possible.

The fight over ICD-10 continued on Tuesday as CMS acting administrator Marilyn Tavenner said at an AMA meeting that CMS wants to reexamine the pace of implementing ICD-10.

The fiscal year 2013 U.S. Health and Human Services budget strives to make wise investments while being fiscally responsible, HHS officials said yesterday during a live web broadcast announcing its budget proposal.

The Congressional Budget Office’s January issue brief on the failure of almost all of more than thirty Medicare demonstration projects to cut costs generated considerable discussion.