House Republican leaders recently presented an outline of their strategies to replace the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare to their rank-and-file members. The newly presented plans rely heavily on...
Medicare Advantage and Medicare Part D prescription drug plan programs managers are taking steps to ensure the programs stay the same for the next year as well. The 2018...
Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) was named as the new secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services recently after a 52-47 vote in favor of Price. Nominated by...
Recently, a judge at the US Court of Federal Claims declined immediate help to a Lake Oswego, Oregon-based health insurer seeking more than twenty one million dollars in payments...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has postponed the deadline for the attestation to Meaningful Use by Eligible Physicians. The deadline was fixed at February 28, but...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has taken the necessary steps in ensuring enough incentives for the states. This ensures that the billions of dollars received for...
A leaked rule from HHS, that is aimed to help stabilize the individual insurance market, reveals the narrow limits of Trump Administration on healthcare reform. It is reported that...
CMS released the final rule that calls for significant legislative changes to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) in October 2016. MACRA repeals the Medicare Part B...
Donald Trump is elected as the next President of the United States of America for a reason. Among the promises made by him, the most notable one is the...
Mergers and acquisitions have been the hot talks in the healthcare landscape for many months now. Health systems are merging, insurers are merging, and many hospitals are buying physician...
Recent reports show considerable progress towards the implementation of the latest Quality Payment Program by CMS. This program is actually introduced to reward the providers for the value-based care...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recently submitted a Semi-Annual Report to the Congress. As per the report, the OIG is...
We all know that Donald Trump will be occupying the White House on January 20, 2017 and the GOP will control both the houses of Congress. Trump has already...
Congress has been working in a bi-partisan way from 2015. They were working on an important medical innovation bill and the bill is intended to increase funding for the...
The cost sharing amounts and 2017 premiums for Medicare Parts A and B was recently released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). According to the agency,...
For the last weeks, Donald Trump has been assembling senior White House staff and his cabinet. Even though some in the media said that the Cabinet selection is much...
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) is determined to inspect or analyze the Medicare Part B payments for the chiropractic services. In a...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program made a recent announcement of an additional eight million dollars in funding for the Special Innovation...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report on Oct 7 that documents about $34 million in payments that are improperly...
The recently released final rule from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has enabled the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to become...