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Today’s Headlines — July 3, 2012

By Stephanie Stapleton July 3, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Good morning! Have you caught your breath yet? Here are today’s headlines … Los Angeles Times: Poll Shows Americans Want Battles Over Healthcare Law To Stop In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to largely uphold President Obama’s healthcare law, a majority of Americans now want to put the fight over the Affordable Care […]

Mass. Senate Skirts End-Of-Life Counseling Controversy

By Martha Bebinger, WBUR May 24, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Updated at 11:00 a.m. on May 24. With no debate, and a quick call of the ayes and nays, the Massachusetts Senate approved a requirement last week that all doctors and nurses talk to dying patients about their end-of-life options. The measure was included in a sweeping health care costs bill that the House expects […]

To Curb Spending On Elderly, Hospitals Try New Business Models

By David Schultz June 4, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Believe it or not, there is a silver lining to the massive storm cloud that is Medicare’s spiraling health care costs. The storm cloud, of course, is the out-of-control spending on health care for the elderly. For instance, more than 13 percent of all federal spending goes toward Medicare. Two thirds of that spending goes to the […]

Measuring Quality: 368 New Ideas For 2012

By Jordan Rau January 10, 2012 KFF Health News Original

How should Medicare and Medicaid measure doctors, hospitals, dialysis centers and other health care providers the government pays? There are 368 new ideas on the table this year, according to a list compiled by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS estimates 60 will be adopted in 2012. Figuring out how to fairly and […]

Today’s Headlines – December 19, 2011

By Stephanie Stapleton December 19, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Good morning! Here are your A.M. headlines to get you going: The New York Times: Extension Of Tax Cut Stalls In House As GOP Objects The once-seemingly sure deal, which allowed the Senate to recess for the year, was for a $33 billion package of bills to keep the Social Security tax paid by most […]

Today’s Headlines – January 27, 2012

By Stephanie Stapleton January 27, 2012 KFF Health News Original

Happy Friday! Here are your morning headlines: Politico: Health Care Reform: House GOP Waits For Supreme Court House Republicans have tried to repeal various pieces of President Barack Obama’s health reform law, but they haven’t touched the least popular piece: the individual mandate. One reason for that: They don’t want to give the Supreme Court […]

Home Health Advocates Push Remote Monitoring In Medicare

By Jessica Marcy December 6, 2011 KFF Health News Original

Home care technology can play a critical role in keeping patients out of hospitals and at home, but many providers believe new policies should be used to encourage its adoption. Advocates for those changes were on Capitol Hill yesterday to push for legislation that would expand the use of such technology, which allows home health […]