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Obamacare's number-one idea for improving health care quality and reducing costs is to promote something called "accountable care organizations" in Medicare is sinking like a stone because it is premised on the notion that government experts can direct the market better than consumers.
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the new head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is enthusiastically embracing the job of encouraging doctors and hospitals to adopt electronic health records.
The court will focus on whether outside groups, such as hospitals, pharmacists and Medicaid recipients, have the right to sue when they believe the state is violating federal law.
Even critics of managed care are warming to the idea of including nearly 400,000 seniors and disabled person now receiving health care through the traditional Medi-Cal program. The shift to managed care begins today and will be phased in.
Many states have such a nonpayment policy in place already. The 2010 federal health law, in effect, expands the ban nationwide.
Activists want to rewrite laws to recognize someone as a person from the moment a sperm fertilizes an egg. But a redefinition could threaten the use of a long list of commonly used contraceptives.
A prestigious Institute of Medicine panel says Medicare's methods of evaluating regional costs are disturbingly imprecise and need to be overhauled.
With enrollment falling far short of expectations, the Obama administration announces changes to make federally run high risk insurance plans both more affordable and more accessible.
In today's Health on the Hill segment, Christine Vestal of Stateline joins KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and Jackie Judd to assess the progress
In today's Health on the Hill segment, Christine Vestal of Stateline joins KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and Jackie Judd to assess the progress
Originally conceived as a way to provide care in rural areas without hospitals, these freestanding ERs are cropping up in more developed areas.
Under laws in more than two dozen states and new Medicare rules that went into effect earlier this year, hospitals are required to report infections, risking their reputations as sterile sanctuaries, or pay a penalty. That's left hospital administrators weighing the cost of 'fessing up against the cost of fines.
Even as some Republicans distance themselves from the House-passed budget that would fundamentally change the Medicare program, the conservative seniors group 60 Plus' celebrity spokesman Pat Boone is boosting the plan.
KHN's "Insuring Your Health" columnist Michelle Andrews talks with Jackie Judd about the provisions in the health law that provide for free preventive tests. While the law doesn't apply to all insurance plans, it should cut costs for many people.
Former President Bill Clinton said Wednesday that a controversial GOP plan to dramatically overhaul Medicare clearly was a factor in the Democrats' victory Tuesday in a House special election in a heavily Republican Western New York district.
Changing Medicare is looking politically risky, so budget-cutters may focus on Medicaid instead. That, too, could prove unpopular because a recent poll shows the public does not favor large cuts to the program.
The author is responding to a column originally published on KHN on May 9, 2011.
Dr. Joshua Sharfstein says his state, which is well ahead of many in implementing the overhaul, is eager to leverage federal help to improve health options.
Among the GOP's bushel of would-be presidents, Romney's dramatic health reforms command all the press - but rival Tim Pawlenty may have overseen the more radical changes, at least on paper.
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