Medicare Plan for Payments Irks Hospitals
For the first time in its history, Medicare will soon track spending on millions of individual beneficiaries, reward hospitals that hold down costs and penalize those whose patients prove most experead...
View ArticlePre-existing Condition Plan Can Cut Premiums
The federal government, which is hoping to boost low participation in its insurance program that covers people with pre-existing conditions, released new rules and incentives Tuesday that make it eread...
View ArticlePatterns: Seniors Fare Better Where Doctors Are
Older adults who live in areas with high concentrations of primary care doctors are less likely than those in areas with fewer such doctors to be hospitalized for illnesses that can be managed outsread...
View ArticleStates Slow to Adopt Health Care Transition
As many legislatures around the country have finished their work for the year, fewer than one-fourth of states have taken concrete steps to create health insurance marketplaces, a central feature oread...
View ArticleStates Turn to Foundations to Help Pay Costs of Health Overhaul
Short on cash and time, officials in California and at least a dozen other states have turned to philanthropies to help pay for the extra work required under the federal health law.
View ArticleVermont’s Move Toward Single-Payer Health Insurance
New England seems to be the testing ground for health insurance reform.
View ArticleThe Hard Truth about Health Care
Everyone in Washington claims to want the same thing lately: a “serious conversation” about health-care costs.
View ArticleNurses Rally for Health Care Funding
Hundreds of members of the nation’s largest nurses’ union demonstrated outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.
View ArticleObama Administration to Appeal Healthcare Ruling
Lawyers for President Barack Obama will on Wednesday seek to stave off the biggest legal challenge yet to healthcare reform, his signature domestic policy achievement.
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