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When Congress created the option for beneficiaries to join the private Medicare Advantage plans, it gave oversight to federal officials, preempting state insurance laws and procedures.
The court says closely held corporations may be exempted from the health law's mandate that employer health plans cover certain types of contraception at no cost to the employee.
An analysis of newly available data may reveal fraud. But experts caution that the raw data alone could also make physicians who are doing nothing wrong look bad.
Many health plans could be affected by the coming high court ruling on cases challenging the mandate to provide specific types of contraception.
Billing data show that some doctors charge the government much more than their peers in the same specialty by deeming almost all office visits "complex."
Two businesses are challenging the health law's birth control coverage requirement on religious freedom grounds.
Patients are more likely to leave frustrated and without the tools they need to take charge of their own health after rushed visits.
But physicians and database experts caution that the information can be easily misconstrued or misunderstood.
But finding a way to finance the SGR replacement may be even more difficult.
The chance to finish medical school early is attracting increased attention from students burdened with six-figure education loans. Medical school administrators and policymakers see it as a way to produce doctors faster and as a response to the looming shortage of primary care physicians.
Even for those with the will and drive to pursue treatment, the process remains difficult, frightening and full of holes. On the federal level, little has come from the task forces and promises that followed the Newtown shootings.
Lawmakers have until Dec. 13 to reach agreement under legislation ending the shutdown of the government and raising the debt ceiling.
Dismal enrollment numbers in October spark cry for action.
The online exchanges that open Oct. 1 are not aimed at Medicare beneficiaries, but the 2010 health law does affect seniors in other ways.
Various legal challenges to the health law's contraception coverage mandate are continuing to wind their way through the system.
The Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital and MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston offer emotional and practical support for families dealing with the disease.
They can expect to be bombarded by messages from both proponents and critics of the law.
Like other types of birth control, these medications are required to be covered as a preventive benefit without cost sharing in many health plans. But to do so, women must get a prescription for the soon-to-be over-the-counter pills.
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