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The Kaiser Health News story and data on Medicare's quality payment programs are based on data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) containing the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing and Readmissions Reduction Program adjustment factors for individual hospitals.
The hospitals were rated on two-dozen measures, including surveys of patient satisfaction and death rates.
Medicare gives hospitals bonuses and penalties based on how well they performed on 24 quality measures. This chart shows the average effect by state on hospitals' Medicare payments during the second year of the program.
This chart shows the payment adjustments for each hospital and how they compared to the bonuses and penalties from last year.
Numbers released by the government Wednesday deepened doubts about the law's immediate viability, and proposed fixes have shortcomings.
If you get your insurance from your employer, there's a very good chance that you are in a "grandfathered plan," and that means some of the provisions of the health law do not apply to you - yet.
Provisions in the fine print of the Affordable Care Act could prevent some children from receiving dental coverage.
Congressional staffers are among those most likely to experience changes in their coverage options as a result of the Affordable Care Act.
A new state law requires price transparency, but it is still a days-long quest for one reporter to find out how much a simple back X-ray costs.
The Obama administration released the final rules Friday for 1996 and 2008 laws that expanded the kinds of mental health and substance abuse care insurers must cover. KHN's Mary Agnes Carey and CQ HealthBeat's Rebecca Adams discuss.
Lara Imler finally got through on healthcare.gov, but it took both motivation and expertise. She has a chronic condition and a programming degree.
The answer: Yes, if their parents have not claimed them as tax dependents.
Barring insurers from rejecting people with medical problems or charging them more is the biggest of several factors affecting premiums.
Unions want their plans exempted from the reinsurance tax, but the Obama administration may not do so until 2015.
Threatened with a legal action from the state, company says 80,000 customers can keep their plans through March 31.
The contractor running Connecticut's call center for its health insurance marketplace doesn't have to reveal how its pricing works.
Not a single person is enrolled yet in Oregon, where 7,300 applications have been filed, all on paper.
Fall is generally the time when many people who get insurance through their job re-enroll. Higher deductibles and dependent care costs, and financial incentives for wellness activities, lead trends.
Many health plans being offered on the New York State insurance marketplace do not include some of New York City's biggest hospitals in their networks. And across the state, many doctors say they are not yet participating in exchange plans at all.
The health law is being blamed for policy cancellations and replacement rate shock. But in Alabama, some say a lack of competition among insurance companies is a big part of the problem.
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