One concern about “bundled care” as a payment method is that while it could lower costs per episode of care, it could perversely encourage hospitals to perform more procedures overall or change their case mix by cherry-picking patients who may have low…
Health care is one of the issues taking center stage in this November’s midterm elections as Democrats press Republicans on preserving protections for preexisting conditions under Obamacare. But there is also plenty of unfinished work for Congress and …
Despite a strong economy, about 40 percent of American families struggled to meet at least one of their basic needs last year, including paying for food, health care, housing or utilities. That’s according to an Urban Institute survey of nearly 7,600 a…
“[Medicaid] work requirements will almost certainly result in large coverage losses among these parents, with harmful consequences for their children’s health and well-being as well.” — Judith Solomon and Aviva Aron-Dine, Center on Budget and Policy Pr…
If Republicans are hoping Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will help them knock down Obamacare in the courts, they might be in for a disappointment. Kavanaugh has signaled in private meetings with Senate Democrats that he is skeptical of some of t…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) started the process of searching for a company to help create a price comparison tool for consumers. The notice comes as CMS is pushing hospitals to be more transparent about what they charge patient…
A group of about a dozen health economists has begun trying to identify policy adjustments, sometimes in tiny slices of the health care system, that could produce savings worth around 1 percent of the country’s $3.3 trillion annual health spending. If …
Senate Republicans say they would like Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) to appoint a successor to the late Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who, unlike McCain, would support GOP legislation to repeal Obamacare. Republican lawmakers say they won’t have time to ho…
CMS made a profit from the Medicare Shared Savings Program last year as more accountable care organizations (ACOs) moved to risk-based contracts and gained experience, new federal data show. About 60 percent of the 472 Medicare ACOs generated a total o…
South Dakota health officials are asking the Trump administration to approve a program that would impose work requirements on some Medicaid recipients who are parents or caretakers. Under the proposal, parents aged 19 to 59 and other caretakers on Medi…
