Policy and Legislation
Leaders of the Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care have said they are alarmed over aspects of the Medicare skilled nursing facility (SNF) payment rule issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services last Thursday.
Community Health Systems, locked in a bitter hostile takeover bid for rival Tenet Healthcare, publicly defended itself Thursday, calling Tenet's allegations of improper patient admission practices "contrived and biased."
The Department of Health and Human Services has launched a new initiative that will reward hospitals for the quality of care they provide to Medicare beneficiaries. HHS officials said the program would also help reduce healthcare costs.
The commander of the American Legion is urging Congress to pass a bill that would allow military veterans to pay for non-combat-related medical care received at VA hospitals with their Medicare coverage.
Is it too early to think about the 2012 elections and potential candidates' takes on healthcare? I don't think so. Healthcare promises to be the mother of all topics for this upcoming election.
Two U.S. senators have introduced legislation to overturn a 1979 court injunction that bars the government from revealing what individual physicians earn from Medicare.
United States Life Insurance, a subsidiary of AIG, has agreed to pay $760,000 in restitution and fines in a settlement with Massachusetts for selling and marketing illegal health insurance products to consumers.
The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up Virginia's lawsuit on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act until the case has gone through all the lower courts.
Some of my colleagues have asked me whether accountable care organizations (ACOs) have a realistic chance of meeting expectations as proposed in the recently-announced regulations from CMS. My answer is that they do not.
The U.S Justice Department has broadened its probe of Community Health Systems' outpatient billing practices, according to a company filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.