While next month's election will likely affect how states implement the health law's insurance exchange and Medicaid expansion provisions, state legislators are facing -- and making -- decisions on them now. CQ HealthBeat: State Races Will Affect Medic...
Finding comprehensive healthcare is difficult for people with eating disorders because it requiring a team of specialists – often a primary care doctor, a therapist, a psychiatrist and a dietician. Patients argue that insurers don’t adequately cover all those services.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Some of the lawsuit's backers maintain that last summer's Supreme Court health law decision would not be the "law's last trip" to the high court. CQ HealthBeat: New Legal Challenge To Health Care Overhaul Tests Law's Central Feature A lawsuit filed by ...
Some long-term insurance companies are slow to pay and have been known to deny payments completely. Many states, including Oregon, Kansas, and Alabama, are adopting new regulations to give consumers some help.
The raised profit forecast for the nation's largest insurer was attributed to big enrollment boosts in the company's Medicare and Medicaid plans, even as medical costs remained stable despite an improved economy. The Associated Press/Washington Post: I...
A Kaiser Family Foundation study released Monday found that almost six in 10 Medicare beneficiaries would pay higher premiums under a hypothetical privatized system similar to that proposed by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Kaiser Health Ne...
Gabby Everett, the site director for BioLabs Pegasus Park, offered a tour of the space and shared some examples of why early-stage life science companies should choose North Texas.
The Wall Street Journal reports that, in the year ahead, nearly $1 billion in payments to hospitals will be based in part on patient satisfaction. The Wall Street Journal: U.S. Ties Hospital Payments To Making Patients Happy Nearly $1 billion in payments to hospitals over the next year will be based in part on patient […]
Even as many states gear up for tougher insurance regulations under the federal health law, Maine lawmakers last year bucked the trend, loosening rules they blamed for some of the highest premiums in the nation. Proponents promised lower rates for all ...
Texas officials fined Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital a record $1 million for patient safety violations in the wake of intense federal oversight that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars if errors aren't corrected. Associated Press: Parkla...
HHS will make loans totaling $161 million available to new non-profit insurance carriers. The Hill: HHS Awards New Grants For Health Care Co-Ops The Health and Human Services Department announced more than $160 million in loans Friday to help establish...
This eBook, in collaboration with Care Logistics, details how hospitals and health systems can facilitate more effective decision-making by operationalizing elevated awareness.
NPR: Obama Campaigns For Veterans' Mental Health Obama signed an executive order on Friday, directing the Veterans Administration to hire 1,600 new mental health professionals and to expand the capacity of its crisis line so those who are in crisis can...
News outlets are looking ahead to the Democratic convention, which begins Tuesday in North Carolina, and how the parties are prepping for post-convention politicking around health care. Politico: Dems Say They'll Talk Health Care In Charlotte Preside...
Modern Healthcare: Feds Notify Hospitals Of Liability For Wrongly Implanted Heart Devices In what experts say is a novel legal tactic to resolve hundreds of ongoing investigations simultaneously, the Justice Department is e-mailing hospitals across the...
Gov. Gary Herbert tells Politico Pro that efforts likely won't pick up until after the election. Meanwhile, a battle in Missouri appears finished on a health exchange ballot issue and Pennsylvania and Georgia also deal with implementation issues. Pol...
Each week KHN reporter Ankita Rao compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal Of the American College Of Surgeons: General Surgeons Identify Postoperative Complications Posing Strongest Readmission Risks -- Res...