President Obama has recently proposed changes to his signature healthcare reform law in order to fix some of its important issues and to check the insurer exits from the...
CMS is continuing to move Medicare program to paying providers on quality rather than on quantity of the care offered to patients, as stated in the final rule for the...
The ruling party has reacted to the bad news that is circulating against Affordable Care Act marketplaces for quite some time now. The news indicates that ACA marketplaces have...
The American Association of Family Practitioners (AAFP) recently asked CMS to revoke some of the elements of Medicare physician fee schedule that block reimbursement on telemedicine for ED services,...
According to the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Labor, and Treasury, full range of FDA-approved contraceptive services should be provided to the enrollees in the group health...
A research team led by AnneMarie Walker-Czyz, EdD, RN, recently conducted a study on the quality of care provided to the patients and on clinical workflow before and after...
After the result of a recent voting, the Senate decided to pass the S. 524 Bill, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA). The approved bill was passed on...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a final rule last month, titled “Expanding Uses of Medicare Data by Qualified Entities,” that describes the situations under...
A recent hearing held by the House Ways and Means Committee on Rising Health Insurance Premiums discussed the issues such as barriers in healthcare access, and on how increased...
The new hospital star rating system was released by CMS last month, despite of the attempts from hospital advocacy groups to stop publishing the star ratings. The hospital ratings...