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The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is expected to make health coverage available to an estimated 32 million people nationwide and to enable consumers to be screened simultaneously for private coverage as well as Medicaid, CHIP and tax-based subsidies.
The Supreme Court justices listened to arguments March 26 about whether or not they have jurisdiction in the lawsuit brought by 26 states led by Florida against the federal government over the constitutionality of the health reform law.
On average, roughly 10 percent of all healthcare claims are initially denied and require additional work on the part of the provider to secure payment. One industry expert offers a three-part plan for reducing the impact of denials on the revenue cycle.
The government's Office of the Inspector General has found that Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital received $1.5 million in overpayments because the hospital didn't fully understand Medicare billing requirements.
Many of us are eagerly anticipating the Supreme Court's decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which President Obama signed into law on March 23, 2010.
The tortuous roots of the individual mandate will be tested this week as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the case regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), but it's only one of the pieces the Justices will be hearing about the law.
The Office of Inspector General (OIG) has been cracking down recently on Medicare overpayments to hospitals.
Campaigning in Louisiana before the primary there, GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney sounded a lot like arch rival Rick Santorum on healthcare.
The federal Health Insurance Exchange regulations were released in final form recently. I had the opportunity to hear Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael Consedine speak in Philadelphia about his state's progress towards building an exchange the very next day (I was speaking later on the program).
On Thursday, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that health insurance premium increases in nine states have been deemed "unreasonable" under the rate review authority granted by the Affordable Care Act.