Government and private insurers are adopting payment plans based more on service quality and less on service quantity. At the end of 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
During his campaign for president, Donald Trump proclaimed, "On day one of the Trump administration, we will ask Congress to immediately deliver a full repeal of Obamacare." Trump’s disdain for…
Telemedicine is on the rise. From 2013 to 2015, the number of people using telemedicine increased from 10 million per year to 15 million, according to the American Telemedicine Association.…
Health insurance exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have hit a rough patch, as many insurance companies are choosing not to offer individual policies through the exchanges. The United…
The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a key portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) - the provision by which people can receive tax credits to help…
The law that threatened to reduce physicians’ pay for Part B Medicare services has been repealed. In April of this year, President Obama signed the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization…
Both the government and private sectors are placing increased emphasis on linking payments for health care services to the level of quality of those services. In July, the Centers for…
The six-month open enrollment period for obtaining health insurance through exchanges under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) got off to a bumpy start when 8.6 million people tried to visit…
Enrollment of patients under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) grows, but some parts of the program have been postponed. When the period of open enrollment closed earlier this year, more than…
This may be the year in which which Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula is finally repealed. The formula is one of Congress’s less-successful attempts at controlling health care costs.…
