Policy and Legislation
A recent post-open enrollment survey conducted by HighRoads indicates that employees worry most about the rising cost of healthcare coverage, followed by coverage cancellation and new taxes on healthcare benefits.
Americans overwhelmingly believe that failure on the part of U.S. policymakers to invest more in medical innovation today will have a "significant long-term impact" on quality of life, employment and economic growth, according to a new poll.
The Camden Group has released its annual Top 10 Trends in Healthcare in 2011, which finds pressures to reduce costs and improve quality in healthcare will trigger an avalanche of activity centered on accountable care organizations, bundled payments and patient-centered medical homes.
If anything, 2011 is shaping up to be a year of considerable change for the healthcare industry. With the passage last year of the healthcare reform legislation followed by on-going legal challenges to certain aspects of the law, many in the healthcare field remain on the edge of their seats in anticipation of what is next.
Readers of this blog have often heard me say that a bipartisan agreement on a health care bill was possible in 2009--driven from the Senate Finance Committee. I have continually made the point that the two sides were much closer than is commonly believed--or partisans are willing to concede.
A.M. Best announced Monday that it is maintaining a negative outlook for the health insurance industry.
With unemployment high and state budgets tight, a recent survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured found nearly all states maintained or made targeted expansions of their Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program eligibility and enrollment rules in 2010.
Nearly one in three doctors cite practice management costs and administrative burdens as a chief concern for their practice, according to a new survey.
A proposal by Holy Cross Hospital to build a new hospital in Maryland's hotly contested Montgomery County is being challenged by a rival hospital with similar plans - and concerns that religious directives could get in the way of providing certain community services.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has postponed Wednesday's vote on a bill to repeal healthcare reform following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and 19 others at a public event Saturday in Tucson.