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Congress created the new $1 billion-a-year Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to experiment with new - and possibly better or more efficient - ways to pay for and deliver health care.
These wagers have added an additional level of complixity to some facilities' balance sheets.
News outlets remember Pulitzer-prize winning gerontologist Dr. Robert N. Butler, who died Sunday at the age of 83.
Since Congress passed the health overhaul, businesses that manage Medicaid "are rushing to get a foothold in states that outsource Medicaid. ... But the experience in some states suggests pitfalls ahead," The Washington Post reports.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including ongoing coverage of President Obama's recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head CMS as well as other developments related to Medicaid, the health insurance industry and state challenges to the health reform law.
Bloggers have a lot to say -- some good, some bad -- about the new CMS chief and how the White House got him the job.
Berwick, a controversial nominee, will take the position without going through the confirmation process.
News outlets report on various effects of the new health law.
The federal government began accepting applications for the high risk pools it will run in 29 states and the District of Columbia Thursday.
A medical school debt problem affects who goes to medical school and what kind of specialty medical students choose.
Crooks Defraud Health Care System With Fake Insurance Plans And Phony Medicare, Medicaid Claims
Advocates continue to petition to allow Michigan to opt out of federal healthcare hill despite setback.
Senate Finance Committee leaders Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, have demanded in a letter that an insurer that was kicked out of the Medicare Part D drug program pay its outstanding claims, The Hill reports.
The Associated Press reports that Americans who lose employer coverage between now and 2014, when much of the health overhaul kicks in, "may find buying insurance on their own unaffordable."
The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) now has the rights to "develop a class of potential anti-TB compounds" that may also treat Chagas disease, African sleeping sickness and leishmaniasis, Reuters reports.
The federal government is spending billions to make electronic medical records a standard feature of physician offices and hospitals.
"India, seasoned in the basics of medicine making, is now starting to take on a more mainstream role in the global drug industry, as a result of recent strengthening of patent law here and cost pressures on name-brand drug makers in the West," the New York Times writes in a piece that examines what the role could mean for the country as well as for the global drug industry.
"[T]he United States needs a national strategy to clarify the goals of foreign aid, trade policy consistent with those goals, an easier process for small businesses to participate and support for international education programs," according to a set of recommendations for improving the effectiveness of U.S. foreign aid assistance released Tuesday by the Seattle-based non-profit Global Washington, the Seattle Times reports.
Countries in Asia and the Pacific should increase investment in agriculture by $120 billion annually through 2050 to address hunger and prevent major food price increases, U.N. and Asian Development Bank (ADB) officials said Wednesday, The Associated Press reports.
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