Reporter Jenny Gold Discusses What 2013 Will Hold For Health Care
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming in the new year: KHN Reporter Jenny Gold discusses the coming shift to new payment systems such as accountable care organizations.
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Senior Correspondent Julie Appleby Discusses What 2013 Will Hold For Health Care
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming in the new year: KHN Senior Correspondent Julie Appleby discusses health insurance exchanges — and how officials are scrambling to meet the deadlines for their launch.
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Senior Correspondent Mary Agnes Carey Discusses What 2013 Will Hold For Health Care
KHN reporters preview some of the big issues coming in the new year: KHN Senior Correspondent Mary Agnes Carey discusses how Medicare could be center stage if the national debate continues to center on the federal debt and spending.
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Florida Facing Huge Medicaid, ‘Obamacare’ Decisions In 2013
State leaders could move forward with a long-awaited overhaul of the Medicaid system and likely will decide how to carry out the federal health law, affecting the health care of millions of poor and uninsured Floridians.
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Connecticut Health Agency Fights Desperation Among the Insured
Connecticut was one of the first states to establish a health care advocacy agency, a response to the numerous complaints lawmakers were receiving at that time from constituents about their managed care plans.
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Feds Approve Minn. Exchange, Insurers Scramble To Develop Health Plans
The federal government’s conditional approval Thursday for Minnesota to operate a health insurance exchange means insurers have just a few months to develop new health plans.
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Letters To The Editor: Readers’ Thoughts On Hospital Readmissions, The Fiscal Cliff And The Costs Of MRIs
Letters to the Editor is a periodic KHN feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection.
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Health Law Seen Boosting Xerox, HP
Data companies are poised to profit from the expansion of Medicaid.
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Medicare Discloses Hospitals’ Bonuses, Penalties Based On Quality
Under a program set up by the health law, payments to 1,557 hospitals will be increased, while 1,427 will drop.
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How Hospitals’ Quality Bonuses And Penalties Were Determined And How To Use The Data
Payments to hospitals are adjusted to reflect how they follow standards of care and patients’ ratings of their experiences.
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Interactive Chart: Bonuses And Penalties For U.S. Hospitals
This chart shows the effect, by hospital, of Medicare bonuses and penalties based on how well they performed on quality measures.
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By State: Hospital Quality Bonuses and Penalties
This chart shows the average effect by state of the value-based purchasing program on hospitals’ Medicare reimbursements per hospital stay for the federal spending year that runs from last October through September 2013.
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Health Insurance Executive: ‘Incorporating All The New Regulations’ Will Be Challenge In 2013
Blue Shield of California chairman and CEO Bruce Bodaken discusses his views on the health law and the current state of the insurance industry.
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