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Wisconsin actually started, then stopped, building a health insurance exchange (HIX). But as the GOP presidential candidates gear up for Tuesday's primary -- and the Supreme Court mulls its decision on the the Affordable Care Act (ACA) -- the health reform law and its insurance exchanges aren't the only things with a questionable future in the Badger State.
A new study by Avelere Health shows that chemotherapy treatments for privately insured patients delivered in an outpatient hospital setting cost 24 percent more than when the treatments are provided in a doctor's office.
IDC Health Insights has released a new report on best practices for establishing enterprise or community health information exchanges (HIEs).
Since the recent announcement by CMS that ICD-10 implementation will be delayed for certain healthcare entities, some industry pundits have argued, "Let's just skip ICD-10 and go straight to ICD-11."
According to research presented last week at the American College of Cardiology's 61st Annual Scientific Session, the likelihood of heart failure patient readmission can be drastically lowered when using a simple checklist before patients leave the hospital.
If the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate, the justices will then decide whether or not the remainder of the health reform law is so intertwined with the insurance requirement that it too must be overturned as unconstitutional.
We asked our social media followers whether they feel a tax on the people would be the best possible penalty. Is it unconstitutional? Is it fair? Are there other sanctions that seem more realistic? Here's a Twitter recap of their responses.
Despite being the most recognized piece of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the individual mandate remains the least popular.
The Supreme Court dove into the heart of the health reform law and its most controversial aspect, the individual mandate, in which the federal government had to deliver a stellar case to sway justices of the need to compel Americans to obtain insurance.
Scores of opponents and supporters of the health care law rallied next to each other for over three hours Monday, before, during and after the Supreme Court hearing.