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...
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.
Healthcare decision-makers, especially at pharmaceutical companies, must prioritize patient input. Data collected from social media listening is a significant step in the right direction.
The Obama administration on Tuesday effectively nullified a provision of the federal health law that would have allowed insurers in the small group market to charge smokers up to 50 percent more than nonsmokers. Under the proposed regulation, employees...
With a federal deadline looming Friday, 10 states remain undecided about whether to build state-based online insurance markets designed to help millions of people buy health coverage starting next October. Still wrestling with the decision are Idaho...
In a sign of the improving national economy, Medicaid spending growth this year slowed to 2 percent as enrollment in the state-federal health insurance program for the poor also slowed for the third consecutive year, according to a report released Thu...
To recruit more doctors to treat the poor, President Barack Obama's health law took a simple approach: temporarily pay doctors more money. Starting Jan. 1, primary care doctors when treating patients on Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance p...
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.