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With a price tag of about $3 billion, the agreement ends a decade-long dispute between an estimated 2,200 hospitals and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over the calculation of pay rate cuts and offsets for rural hospitals.
In Georgia, Kansas, Colorado, Connecticut and other states, Medicaid costs are daunting.
This week's offerings come from the Archives of Internal Medicine, The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Heritage Foundation.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care policy from around the country.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, include reports about the fate of the health law, about campaign developments and news from the states.
Politics swirled around events designed to mark the sixth anniversary of the state's health reforms -- with a focus on GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who signed the measure when he was governor and is now campaigning against the federal health law, which includes many similar provisions.
On the Democratic side, Vice President Joe Biden takes on Romney, while news outlets offer fact checks and reports of health policy sparring on the congressional campaign trail.
In Massachusetts, Partners HealthCare is in talks to acquire South Shore hospital and Beth Israel Deaconess cuts jobs after an admissions dip. In California, lawmakers probe taxpayer-funded hospital districts and their stockpiling of cash.
The New York Times reports on a range of new ideas and new applications that are finding their way into the health care market.
News outlets report on how a corporate watchdog group is pressing a Minneapolis hospital to get rid of its on-site McDonald's while a Kansas City, Mo., hospital is also working in this direction.
But the rate of increase is projected to be less than 10 percent for the first time since 2001.
Reuters reports on a survey of physician attitudes about how the health law might change their profession. Meanwhile, in California, family physicians are targeting young people in efforts to recruit future doctors.
An Arkansas judge fined the drug maker and a subsidiary for misleading doctors and the public on the risks involved with taking an anti-psychotic drug, Risperdal, and for marketing the drug for an off-label use to the state's Medicaid system.
News outlets across the country report on a variety of health policy issues.
Eight Planned Parenthood branches are suing Texas over their exclusion from the Texas Women's Health Program, saying denying them a place denies them their right to free speech. In March, Texas dropped its state Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood because Planned Parenthood provides abortion services.
Subscription websites report on recent developments related to the health law.
A selection of editorials and opinions on health care policy from around the country.
This week's selections of interesting magazine articles comes from Time, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, American Medical News and AARP Magazine.
Inter Press Service examines how HIV/AIDS is affecting women in western Nepal, where life in the poor region "is getting worse thanks to HIV infection brought back by men who go to neighboring India for seasonal work." According to IPS, "Worst hit are the region's women, many of whom have had to sell off their land and livestock to get HIV treatment for their husbands and, in many cases, for themselves." Some women who are widowed by HIV may find work as laborers, but the "social stigma attached to HIV and fears of contracting the virus among villagers" makes life difficult for women affected by HIV/AIDS, the news service notes. The article includes quotes from several women and community health workers involved in prevention, counseling and care of women affected by the disease. "According to the government's National Centre for AIDS and STD Control (NCASC), women in the 15-49 age group form over 28 percent of the estimated 55,000 people living with HIV in the country," IPS writes (Newar, 4/11).
"New York global health researchers and industry leaders gathered Monday in Manhattan to discuss how global health research and development is fueling innovation and saving lives, not to mention funding jobs and companies in the state," the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog reports. At the event, organized by Research!America, "Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) made introductory remarks in which she highlighted some of the impressive milestones that investments in global health by the U.S. and other global partners have achieved over the past few decades," the blog notes (Mazzotta, 4/11). "Lawmakers and global health advocates called on researchers, pharmaceutical companies and funding partnerships to actively expand congressional lobbying for their global health initiatives, or risk severe federal budget cuts for such projects in coming years," Nature's "Spoonful of Medicine" blog notes (Hersher, 4/11).
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