Health Affairs: Use Of Telemedicine Can Reduce Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Residents And Generate Savings For Medicare Hospitalizations of nursing home residents are frequent and result in complications, morbidity, and Medicare ...
Tags: Telemedicine, Medicaid, Medicare Premium
Today's headlines include detailed coverage of the Obama administration's announcement that it will delay a health law requirement that mid-sized employers provide health insurance to workers while also allowing larger employers more ...
Tags: Medicaid Managed Care, Health Law, Obamacare, Anti-ACA Sentiment
The agreement would get rid of the troubled system that has often left doctors uncertain about their reimbursements, but the bipartisan leaders have not yet found a way to pay for such a change. Los Angeles Times: U.S. Lawmakers Reach ...
Tags: Lawmaker, Medicare Doctor, Quality, Payments
During a hearing of the House Oversight And Government Reform Committee, Republicans tagged this provision as an insurance industry bail-out despite Congressional Budget Office projections cited by Democrats that it ultimately will collect ...
Tags: Risk Corridor, Anti-Health Law, GOP, CBO
Today's headlines include stories about the health law's coverage gap. Kaiser Health News: Arkansas' Medicaid Experiment, Key To Obamacare Expansion, On Ropes Kaiser Health News staff writer Phil Galewitz reports: "The Arkansas' ...
Tags: Kaiser Health, Health Law, ACA, CMS
In their first results of the heralded program -- which was set up in the health law -- federal officials say about half of the accountable care organizations slowed spending but few met the requirements to qualify for bonuses. Kaiser ...
Tags: Healthcare Delivery Reforms, reduce healthcare costs, Medicare
Today's headlines include progress reports on health exchanges in Washington state and New York as well as poll results on Virginia's Medicaid Expansion. Kaiser Health News: Insuring Your Health: Advocates Worry That Drug Company ...
Tags: Health&Medicine
Today's headlines include reports about how the health law played in last night's State-of-the-Union address by President Barack Obama. Kaiser Health News: Ex-Microsoft Exec Brings Lists And Whiteboard To Overhaul Of Obamacare Website ...
Tags: Treating Clubfoot, Obamacare Website, America's Economic Divide
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Hospitalization Of Elderly Medicaid Long-Term Care Users Who Transition From Nursing Homes To compare ...
The Department of Health and Human Services moves to break up a big backlog of Medicare claims appeals, with beneficiary hearings taking precedent. In the meantime, The Fiscal Times looks at overpayment in private Medicare Fee-For-Service ...
Each week, KHN compiles a selection of recently released health policy studies and briefs. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society: Hospitalization Of Elderly Medicaid Long-Term Care Users Who Transition From Nursing Homes To compare ...
News outlets in California offer examples of companies that are giving new customers more time to pay their first month's premiums while in Connecticut, one insurer is beginning to get a handle on the crush of enrollment. Los Angeles ...
Tags: Insurers, Payment Deadlines for Customers, Health&Medicine
As the Wall Street Journal reports that one of the biggest issues right now is making sure these newly insured people have insurance cards, other news outlets detail reports and questions about the number of enrollees. The Wall Street ...
Tags: Insured Patients, Health&Medicine, Health&Medicine News
Kaiser Health News staff writer Anna Gorman, working in collaboration with USA Today, reports: "On a recent winter morning, health outreach worker Christopher Mack walked through the streets and alleys of the city's Skid Row, passing a man ...
Stateline examines the difficulty for many working families to buy insurance while KHN spends time at a California hospital to survey how some without insurance try to afford care. Other news coverage on health law outreach and enrollment ...
Tags: Obamacare, Emergency Room, Connecticut, The Affordable Care Act