KHN's Mary Agnes Carey speaks with Jackie Judd about negotiations on Capitol Hill to avoid the "fiscal cliff" and just how close -- or far apart -- Democrats, Republicans and the White House seem to be on cutting spending and letting some tax cuts fo...
Sam Lewis turned 65 in the nick of time. For a year, he'd been broke. His Brentwood, Calif., general contracting business had gone bust. He couldn't make payments on his home, and lost it. He couldn't make payments on his health insurance, so he let it...
Canada has a proud history of achievement in the areas of science and technology, and the field of biomanufacturing and life sciences is no exception.
In a Monday blog post by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, it was announced that a total of 18 states will operate their own health exchanges. Meanwhile, Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Monday that his state will bow out of the another key aspect of the health law: Medicaid expansion. Reuters: Health Insurance […]
The Supreme Court famously upheld most of the Affordable Care Act in June. But in a year or two we may see another riveting Supreme Court drama growing out of the health law, this one driven by the passionate objections of many religious employers to t...
Two years and $8.4 billion into the government's effort to get doctors to take their practices digital, some unintended consequences are starting to emerge. One is a lot of unhappy doctors. In a big survey by Medscape this summer 38 percent of the doct...
The Obama administration answered a key question from governors on Monday with a clear "no": States may not expand Medicaid only part of the way and still get the full federal funding provided in the Affordable Care Act. The decision, announced by Heal...
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Two-thirds of office-based physicians plan to apply or have already applied for meaningful use incentives for using electronic health records (EHRs), a government survey found. However, only about a quarter have computer systems that support Stage 1 meaningful use objectives -- a prerequisite for receiving the incentives
The federally-run health insurance exchanges will be financed with a surcharge -- capped at 3.5 percent of monthly premiums in 2014, according to proposed regulation released Friday.
News outlets covered the Saturday meeting of the American Psychiatric Association as changes were approved to its manual of mental disorders. USA Today: Psychiatrists Approve Vast Changes To Diagnosis Manual Asperger's is out, but binge eating and hoa...
The justices could consider same-sex marriage, which would affect health benefits for federal employees and possibly Medicaid. The Associated Press/San Francisco Chronicle: Gay Marriage Before Supreme Court? Cases Weighed Three weeks after voters backe...
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
Two methods federal officials use to report Medicaid expenditures don't match up, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Thursday.
If you think that the Affordable Care Act has surmounted all of the major legal attacks its opponents could come up with, think again. Critics of the federal health law have only begun to fight, although most of their battles are decidedly uphill. The ...
Seven health care institutions participated in a quality-improvement project advanced by the Joint Commission and the American College of Surgeons to reduce colorectal surgical-site infection rates. During a two and a half year period, those facilitie...
In the past, the only thing a patient was sure to get after a hospital stay was a bill. But as Medicare cracks down on high readmission rates, hospitals are dispatching nurses, transportation, culturally specific diet tips, free medications and even ba...
HHS' office of the inspector general this year continued its steady march upward in the number of new criminal cases it helped file and the amount of misspent federal healthcare dollars it recovered...