Health Care Reform

Workplace wellness and the ACA: The Policy & Practice Podcast

With each passing week, the Obama Administration rolls ahead with implementation of the Affordable Care Act ? despite attempts by House and Senate Republicans to derail the effort. Most recently, the administration issued rules... »

An Affordable Care Act provision that allows adults aged 19-25 years to remain on a parent’s health plan appears to be helping to decrease the amount of uncompensated care in the emergency department, according to a study... »

More than half of the nation’s physicians and other health care providers use electronic health records in their practices, new statistics from the Health and Human Services department show.

"We have reached a tipping... »

For the first time in 7 years, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has a Senate-confirmed administrator, now that Marilyn Tavenner has received that body’s stamp of approval.

Ms. Tavenner was confirmed on May 15 by a... »

An estimated 55 million U.S. adults – or 30% of those aged 19-64 years – were without health insurance coverage at some point last year, according to the Commonwealth Fund’s biennial survey of health insurance.

Another 30... »

Starting Oct. 1, individuals and small businesses will have the chance to shop for and purchase private insurance through the new health insurance exchanges, but they are likely to have plenty of questions about the products and... »

SAN FRANCISCO – Stand by for some unexpected and potentially nasty surprises when the health insurance exchanges start up in 2014.

The exchanges will start enrolling patients this fall and begin sending information to patients... »

NEW ORLEANS – Haven’t received your meaningful use incentive? Check your mail for an audit letter.

If in January you submitted an attestation of meaningful use of your electronic health record – with an eye to reaping the... »

The Department of Health and Human Services has issued its final rule on what kinds of coverage must be offered by almost all health plans starting in 2014.

The rule outlines the parameters for the so-called essential health... »

Federal health officials have finally released the details on how online public reporting of industry payments to physicians will work.

Under the final rule released on Feb. 1 by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services... »