Policy and Legislation
The ranks of American adults without health insurance is now 17.3 percent of the population, a rate that is the highest on record, according to a Gallup poll measuring uninsurance rates in the third quarter.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has extended the Medicare revalidation deadline for providers and suppliers to 2015.
Kaiser Health News tries hard to understand Mitt Romney’s Medicare plans and ultimately concludes it’s difficult to figure out what it all means. Not surprisingly, Romney is none too quick to get into specifics.
On the same day voters in Ohio were summarily rejecting by a margin of nearly 2-to-1 the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act, justices at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia weighed in with a ruling upholding the mandate as constitutional.
Americans are fed up with big government and want to downsize. That's been the gist of news headlines for some time now. However, a new poll by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the Harvard School of Public Health puts the kibosh on that popular notion.
The CMS/Premier healthcare alliance Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) project served as a test-bed for various provisions in the healthcare reform law.
New Hampshire has one of the oldest populations in the country. New Hampshire Public Radio recently hosted a newscast in which guests shared how Medicare's 'silver tsunami' could not only be economically devastating to the Granite State, but to the future of the healthcare structure.
Representatives of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are estimating the SNF sector will potentially lay off 20,000 employees, will forgo the creation of 20,000 new jobs and will alter employee benefits as a result of the Medicare payment cuts that took effect on Oct. 1.
Doctors can and often do prescribe medications for different purposes than what the FDA has approved them for. But drug companies face tight restrictions on communicating with physicians about these so-called “off-label” uses.
HMS Holdings Corp. announced Monday that it will acquire HealthDataInsights, the Medicare recovery audit contractor for Region D, for approximately $400 million.