Medicare Rule Sparks Concerns About Patients’ Access To Home Health Care
Providers criticize health law requirement targeted at curbing wasteful spending.
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Providers criticize health law requirement targeted at curbing wasteful spending.
The centers, designed to help low-income and uninsured people, offer an affordable option for care, but it can also be tough to get an appointment.
Hospitals, doctors scramble for outside help in deciphering how to capitalize on health law's "accountable care organizations."
Insurance agents fear the health reform law threatens their livelihood and want changes in rules to protect their commissions and guarantee them a role in the new health exchanges.
The recession and rising health costs create financial hardships or cause consumers to forgo care, according to a survey by the Commonwealth Fund.
Jackie Judd and Jordan Rau discuss the accuracies and inaccuracies of recent television ads on health care reform legislation. So far, over $165 million has been spent by groups trying to influence the debate.
Nearly half of the states have received some type of help, including 11 states with Republican governors.
Physicians' lobby says fixing the 12-year-old formula that sets Medicare payments would prove lawmakers' commitment to reform health care.
The health law provides a 50 percent discount on brand name drugs and 7 percent for generics once beneficiaries reach the doughnut hole.
Support levels have changed little since the landmark bill was signed last March as the partisan divide on the issue continues, new Kaiser Family Foundation poll finds.
In addition to shifting nearly all Medicaid patients to HMOs and other managed care, the Senate's proposal would cap spending, require plans to bid for business and impose $100 fees on patients who abuse the emergency room.
KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and NPR's Julie Rovner report on how proponents and opponents are marking the first anniversary of the law.
Congress is unlikely to tackle major changes in Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security before the 2012 election because of few signs that Republicans and Democrats are willing to assume the political risk, according to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
As Congress wrestles with medical liability reform, more than 40 years of experience with California's cap on non-economic damages offers evidence that this approach is an effective way to achieve the goal of reducing health care costs while preserving sufficient deterrence in the legal system.
The Healthy Indiana Plan is the Hoosier state's alternative to traditional Medicaid. It's boosters also consider it a viable alternative to the dreaded Affordable Care Act. But do they really have a case?
Few options are available for the 42,000 people losing coverage.
Mississippi Gov. Barbour's ways to control the rising costs of Medicaid are sometimes controversial, but he maintains that states need more freedom to run the program.
As the House considers its repeal of the health law's unpopular 1099 reporting provision, the measure's premium tax credits are being eyed as a possible pay-for.
The public employee backlash against Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plan to help balance the state's budget by imposing higher health care and pension co-pays is spreading across the nation, as newly-elected conservative governors seek to roll back benefits granted during better economic times.
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