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Week In Review: Doctor Payment Fight; State Budgets And Medicaid; Medicare Brochure Protests

May 28, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Challenges from conservative Democrats forced party leaders this week to cut some major spending programs, such as extending COBRA benefits for workers being laid off and providing extra money to state Medicaid programs.

Week In Review: Details On Health Reform’s High-Risk Insurance Pools And HHS’ Insurance Website

By Stephanie Stapleton July 2, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Two of the new health law’s early deliverables – high-risk insurance pools and a federal website for consumers – took center stage as July 1 marked a busy day in the administration’s implementation schedule.

Health Policy Week In Review: The White House Touts Medicare Rebate Checks And Senate Dems Struggle To Advance Jobs Bill

By Stephanie Stapleton June 11, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Administration officials tout the Medicare drug rebate as an early and tangible benefit of health reform while Senate Democrats continue trying to advance a legislative package that includes the Medicare physician payment fix and, potentially, an extension of enhanced Medicaid funding for states.

Week In Review: Appealing Insurance Claim Denials; GOP Questions For Berwick And Kagan; What Fate For COBRA And FMAP?

By Stephanie Stapleton July 23, 2010 KFF Health News Original

This week’s health policy news was marked by new administration rules regarding the appeals process for denied health insurance claims and continuing state-level efforts to implement high risk pools.

Feds To States: Set Up Health Insurance Pools For High-Risk Patients By July 1

By Mary Agnes Carey June 17, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The federal government is giving states until June 25 to say how they intend to run high-risk pools to insure people who have been denied coverage due to a pre-existing medical condition and have been uninsured for at least six months.

Market-Based Reform Initiatives Are Key To Health Law Success

By Grace-Marie Turner June 17, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Consumer-directed health plans have been useful in controlling the rise of health costs over the last several years, but the survival of these plans is threatened by the new health overhaul law.

Are Doctors Like Wall Street Lenders?

By Andrew Villegas May 7, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Unless clarifications are made in the financial overhaul legislation currently pending in Congress, doctors and dentists — as well as other health practitioners — are concerned that they will face hefty costs and paperwork burdens.

Text: The Obama Administration’s New ‘Patient’s Bill Of Rights’

June 22, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The White House today released a “Fact Sheet: The Affordable Care Act’s New Patient’s Bill of Rights,” the Obama administration’s summary of new regulations issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Health On The Hill: Upcoming Primaries

May 17, 2010 KFF Health News Original

After a lengthy and fierce debate in Washington about health care reform, voters in several states have an opportunity to weigh in this week on what they think of the historic measure in numerous primary contests.

Cutting C-Sections Helped Babies

By Cynthia Washam, Health News Florida June 15, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Florida hospital administrators for years have said the state’s high rate of preterm births — and the infant health problems that result — are beyond their control. But that’s not true, as Tallahassee Memorial Hospital has proved.

Transcript: Health On The Hill – May 25, 2010

May 25, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The House of Representatives may vote on legislation this week that would stop a scheduled June 1 payment cut for doctors who accept Medicare physicians.

Health Care Insurance Scams Rise as Layoffs Leave Workers Uninsured

By Carter Dougherty, The Fiscal Times May 5, 2010 KFF Health News Original

A searing recession that left nearly 10 percent of the American workforce unemployed, plus a time when health care costs continue to soar, equals fertile ground for health insurance swindlers.

Some Medicaid Doctors Rely Heavily On Potent Drugs

By Emily Ramshaw, The Texas Tribune July 15, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Over the last five years, Texas physicians wrote Medicaid patients nearly 3.4 million prescriptions for antipsychotics.

COBRA Health Insurance Subsidies Waiting For Senate Action

By Maggie Mertens and Andrew Villegas April 14, 2010 KFF Health News Original

People recently laid off are waiting – once again – to hear if they will be eligible for subsidies to stay on their employer’s health insurance.

Playing Chicken

By Jonathan Cohn May 3, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Sensible public policy shouldn’t ask people to reduce that health care bill by bargaining with their doctors over prices and using things (as one Republican U.S. Senate candidate recently suggested) like chickens to pay for care. It should prevent that kind of financial exposure in the first place.

Week In Review: Berwick Nomination Still Drawing Fire; Regulations For Health IT And Preventive Care; A New AIDS Policy; New PhRMA Chief

July 16, 2010 KFF Health News Original

This week, news outlets covered the Obama administration as it began implementing parts of the new health law and also unveiled a national HIV/AIDS strategy. And, Capitol Hill is still reacting to the president’s recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the agency overseeing Medicare and Medicaid.

What The New Health Law Means For You

By Phil Galewitz June 2, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The law will extend health insurance to 32 million currently uninsured Americans by 2019, and will also have an impact on how nearly every American buys insurance and what insurance must cover.

Health Law Guarantees Protections For Emergency Room Visits

By Maggie Mertens May 13, 2010 KFF Health News Original

The new health law mandates that insurers cannot pay less for emergency care in “out-of-network” hospitals and eases consumer worries about having to pre-authorize an emergency room visit.

Transcript: Health On The Hill – May 3, 2010

May 4, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Some states have told the Department of Health and Human Services that they intend to establish their own high-risk health insurance pool while others have said they want the federal government to do it.

Health On The Hill – April 12, 2010

April 12, 2010 KFF Health News Original

Physicians face a 21 percent cut in their Medicare payments unless the Senate approves legislation this week to stop the scheduled reduction. Meanwhile, education efforts about elements of the health care overhaul package are continuing, with the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies and outside groups working to give the public more specifics about the measure.

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