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Wall Street is not expecting the type of robust enrollment in insurance exchanges that the Congressional Budget Office has predicted, but some investors are expecting federal policy changes that expose insurers to more risk.
Hospital administrators are saying recent recommendations from the Office of Inspector General regarding critical access hospital certification will result in hospital closures.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $67 million in Affordable Care Act funds to support community health centers, including $19 million to establish 32 new healthcare delivery sites.
The hospice community sees benefit in increased Medicare surveys of its facilities as an opportunity to improve their operations and to demonstrate to the public that they meet requirements.Currently, hospice surveys are many years apart.
It is becoming clearer that it will take time, strategy and investment for accountable care organizations to hit their anticipated mark. During the summer, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services reported that all 32 Pioneer ACOs had improved quality of care for its participants, but only 13 were able to lower the cost of that care enough to share in the savings.
Medical identity theft is on the rise and hasn't shown signs of slowing down anytime soon, according to a new report released Thursday.
With health insurance exchanges opening Oct. 1, it will be essential that health plans pursue and keep up a high level of consumer awareness.
Two-thirds of U.S. hospitals will receive payment reductions tied to Medicare readmission penalties to see that improving the level of care will be the foundation for building operational sustainability in the future.
Because models for accountable care organizations are so new, it's difficult to predict if they will develop along the lines evident today, or morph into something else.
Polls show that few people understand health insurance or the Affordable Care Act. That's especially so for those who have the most to gain from Obamacare: people who are uninsured and haven't had health insurance for a while. It doesn't help that so much of the political debate and news coverage is about the battle over Obamacare rather than education about how it works.