The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the insurance marketplaces set up by the ACA, is encouraging states to allow the sale of plans outside of those exchanges that don’t incorporate a surcharge insurers started tacking on last…
Drug overdoses killed about 72,000 Americans last year, a record number that reflects a rise of around 10 percent, according to new preliminary estimates from the Centers for Disease Control. The death toll is higher than the peak yearly death totals f…
Despite Republican efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act (ACA), insurance premiums will go up only slightly in most states where carriers have submitted proposed prices for next year. And insurance carriers are entering markets rather than fleei…
New York University said Thursday that it will cover tuition for all its medical students regardless of their financial situation, a first among the nation’s major medical schools and an attempt to expand career options for graduates who won’t be saddl…
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversees the insurance marketplaces set up by the ACA, is encouraging states to allow the sale of plans outside of those exchanges that don’t incorporate a surcharge insurers started tacking on last…
To learn how funding shortfalls are being experienced on the ground, the authors spoke with hospital administrators, chiefs of emergency departments, directors of county public health departments, and heads of FQHCs and behavioral health clinics. They …
What is the current status of ACA innovation waivers for each state?
Clinicians at seven hospitals in Sheffield joined together to create a unique “price-match” scheme that jointly evaluated commonplace items, such as surgical gloves and antiembolism socks, on quality and cost. The hospitals teamed up to buy 11 items in…
A deal between the Ngati Whatua Orakei trust and the Australian insurance company Nib will offer free private health insurance to 4,000 members of the Ngati Whatua Maori subtribe across the country. The insurance will cover surgical and medical hospita…
An annual national report on the quality of care for older adults found that the share of elders who receive multiple medications had increased from the previous year. The March 2018 report, which covers 28 care coordination indicators, found that in 2…
