Policy and Legislation
With the August 2 deadline of a debt ceiling plan approaching fast, we at Healthcare IT News decided to ask our Twitter followers what their biggest fears and aggravations were on the situation, concerning healthcare.
Two Brooklyn, N.Y., pharmacists were arrested on Wednesday on healthcare fraud charges for their alleged participation in a scheme to defraud Medicare Part D of more than $3 million, announced the Department of Justice, FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Seniors responding to a new poll said they are significantly concerned about the potential impact to their health coverage if the federal deficit reduction plan includes changes to Medicare benefits.
The American Academy of Family Physicians is warning its members that there may be a delay in the receipt of Medicare payments if an agreement on raising the federal government's debt ceiling is not reached by the Aug. 2 deadline.
All healthcare spending in the United States is projected to grow at an annual average rate of 5.8 percent for the period 2010 through 2020, according to a report released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The trend of primary care physicians earning lower wages for their services compared to specialists is not tied to the number of hours they work, according to research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine last month.
Most accountable care organizations, spurred by the Medicare Shared Savings Program, are taking four different approaches to creating new payment models, according to a new report sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has corrected $684.8 million in improper payments since FY 2010, according to an update released earlier this month on its Medicare Fee-for-Service Recovery Audit Program.
The Minnesota-based insurer sees a greater need for healthcare in rural America, as well as an increase in people on government-funded insurance programs and a decrease in physicians, and points to telehealth and telemedicine as possible solutions.
In early July, the Drug Enforcement Administration finally answered a nine-year-old petition from medical marijuana advocates asking the government to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule 1 controlled substance.