Policy and Legislation
Merger and acquisition activity in the health care industry's service sectors burgeoned in 2010 as the impact of the credit crunch and Great Recession on the economy began to fade says the seventeenth edition of Irving Levin Associates' "The Health Care Services Acquisition Report."
The House Energy and Commerce Committee is seeking feedback from 51 medical associations on how to fix the Sustainable Growth Rate - the formula used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to control Medicare payments to physicians.
The new proposed regulations on accountable care organizations, released Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services, launch one of the first delivery-reform initiatives to be implemented under the Accountable Care Act.
Florida's Senate Health Regulation Committee unanimously approved a bill yesterday that would shift the bulk of the state's Medicaid recipients into HMOs and other types of managed-care organizations.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released regulations today on accountable care organizations (ACOs). The rules will guide provider organizations in setting up exchanges of healthcare data to improve care and reduce costs, as mandated under the Affordable Care Act.
Brokers holding their breath to see if their compensation will be removed from the medical loss ratio formula required by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be turning a darker shade of blue.
The HIMSS Medical Banking Project G7 Roundtable, a specialized think-tank of healthcare stakeholders, has released two new reports on accountable care organizations and real time adjudication of claims.
Consumer Watchdog, a non-partisan consumer advocacy group, announced Tuesday that it has called on the Obama administration to make health reform waivers "the exception, not the rule."
A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation on the effects of raising Medicare's eligibility age to 67 in 2014 shows that while the federal government would achieve $7.5 billion in savings, the move would also result in $10.1 billion in extra costs for 65- and 66-year-olds and employer-sponsored retiree healthcare costs.
Medicare is the ever-growing elephant dragging the country under, so I’m pleased to see that its beneficiaries are starting to feel a bit of a squeeze.