Policy and Legislation
Congress on Monday agreed to a reprieve of scheduled 23 percent Medicare pay cuts to physicians that would have started December 1. The measure means reimbursement levels will go untouched until January 1.
A new study from the Office of the Inspector General has discovered that Medicaid may be paying for drugs it shouldn't.
A hospital in Illinois known as "Good Sam" and a healthcare consulting group in Florida are among seven 2010 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winners.
With two Congressmen-elect already on record as saying they will decline their government health plan when they are seated next month, pressure is building for others who openly campaigned against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to follow suit.
Diabetes care for Native Americans is significantly underfunded, although that population has the highest per capita incidence of diabetes in the United States.
This whole medical loss ratio (MLR) provision in the new health care law is a fool’s errand. When it comes to controlling health care costs it is about as productive as taking your shoes off at the airport is valuable at improving air travel security.
In yet another good news/bad news scenario, lawmakers once again postponed a 23 percent reduction in Medicare reimbursements to doctors - but only for one month.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has launched the new application cycle for the National Health Service Corps Loan Repayment Program, which received $290 million from the Affordable Care Act this year.
New regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services require health insurers to spend 80 percent to 85 percent of consumers' premiums on direct care for patients and efforts to improve care quality, starting in 2011.
The Medical Loss Ratio requirements contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act take effect on January 1, 2011. Even though the Department of Health and Human Services has yet to certify the recommendation concerning how carriers should calculate the percentage of premium they pay toward medical care and health quality measures, the carriers have to be managing their businesses to hit the MLR targets on January 1st.