Policy and Legislation

NEHI, a national network for health innovation, has proposed a national strategy for disseminating comparative effectiveness research findings that would be led by the newly created Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

President Barack Obama has released a fiscal year 2012 budget proposal that includes funding to stabilize Medicare physician payments.

Physicians show 'mounting frustration' over current payment rate

President Barack Obama's State of the Union address highlighted an aspect of the healthcare debate that shows how much Democrats have riding on finding new ways to cut Medicare and Medicaid costs without cutting enrollment.

House GOP repeal is DOA

Governors criticize ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to Medicaid

The California-based Integrated Healthcare Association has been awarded a three-year, $2.9 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Medicare costs in the last six months of life are influenced more by patient characteristics - such as ability to function, the severity of the illness and family support - than by regional factors, such as the number of hospital beds available, according to a study published in The Annals of Internal Medicine.

A new report has found that hospitals are falling short of the Joint Commission's language access requirements for patients with limited English.

With Constitutional challenges to the individual mandate now threatening the very life of the new health care law, Republicans aren't the only ones that would like to see it jettisoned and replaced with something better.