Policy and Legislation
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative has launched a new Center for Accountable Care. The goal, according to PCPCC officials, is to help ensure that a strong, robust, patient-centered primary care model is at the foundation of accountable care organizations nationwide as a way to deliver better care and lower costs.
It has been nearly one year since President Obama signed healthcare reform into law, and it appears many people are more confused and stressed about the future of healthcare than when we first started down this path.
The Departments of Health and Human Services and Treasury have proposed new rules to help states receive a State Innovation Waiver under the Affordable Care Act.
A health insurance broker told a House committee that administrative burdens caused by health reform could prompt employers to drop health insurance benefits in 2014, when federal insurance exchanges are scheduled to open.
The Department of Health & Human Services is granting a waiver to Maine health insurers, giving them three years to meet the 80 percent medical loss ratio required under health reform.
Nearly half a million patients in New York's Hudson Valley are now associated with a patient-centered medical home, created in part with $1.5 million in incentives provided by six health plans organized by the Taconic Health Information Network and Community.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has certified a class action lawsuit against one of the world's largest distributors of pharmaceuticals. The San Francisco-based McKesson Corporation has been accused of inflating the prices of hundreds of brand-name prescription drugs, including some of the most prescribed, such as Prozac and Lipitor.
Thirteen new guidelines for the patient-centered medical home recognition and accreditation program have been released by the American Academy of Family Physicians, American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Physicians and American Osteopathic Association.
On February 25, 2011, CMS published a proposed rule that would implement an Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision to allow states to provide Medicaid home and community-based attendant services and supports through the Community First Choice (CFC) state plan option.
A Las Vegas woman has pled guilty to falsely representing to Medicare that she owned a Los Angeles-area durable medical equipment company which collected close to $2 million in federal reimbursement funds.