The new rule includes additional amendments designed to accelerate the use of virtual check-ins and Remote Patient Monitoring in the market. Here's a look at why the rule is good but not great.
Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said it’s wrong to have ACOs that can only make profits but not risk any losses. “We want to put the accountability back into Accountable Care Organizations,” she said during a briefing with reporters.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the navigators that operate in the 34 states that use the federal marketplace — including many health and religious organizations — were ineffective and had outlived their usefulness.
“The Supreme Court will ultimately decide if nearly 800,000 West Virginians with pre-existing conditions will lose their healthcare,” said U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia)
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said attacks by the Trump Administration threaten healthcare for millions of Americans.
Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, refused to discuss the findings in any detail or comment on any individual states that performed poorly or exceptionally.
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.
In his plans to cut sky-high drug prices unveiled Friday, Trump said that increasing industry competition will help Americans save at the pharmacy counter.
Hiring the president’s personal attorney matches a history of aggressively courting government officials by a corporation with much to lose in the debate over high drug prices.
CHIP, which covers 9 million children from low-income families that earn too much to qualify for Medicaid, is mostly federally funded. But states operate the program within federal guidelines.
The pharma industry as a whole has cranked up political contributions and lobbying. Meanwhile, despite much talk about change, Congress and the Trump administration have done little to control drug prices or threaten drug-company profits.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
A 2-to-1 ruling by the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated a Maryland law meant to limit “price-gouging” by makers of generic drugs. The appeals court held that Maryland’s law overstepped limits on how states can regulate commerce.
President Donald Trump should name hedge fund manager Steve Cohen as Secretary for Veterans Affairs instead of Trump's personal physician Ronny Jackson.
Here is a timeline of the most consequential events that have shaped the health law through the Trump Administration's and GOP's "repeal and replace" efforts in Congress.
Although the Senate handily passed a proposal authorizing Right to Try in August, the House vote failed to get a two-thirds majority with a vote of 259 to 140.
CMS has recruited more than 100 organizations to join the CMS Medicare Blue Button 2.0 developer preview program, which was announced at the HIMSS conference in Las Vegas this week.