HealthLeadersMedia | Widespread objections to proposed federal rules on accountable care organizations prompted the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week to announce enticements designed to sway providers to apply for the new payment model.
On Thursday CMS fleshed out one of the programs that it hopes...
ImagingBiz | Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Fund (HI Trust Fund) will be totally depleted in 2024, five years earlier than originally projected, according to the Medicare Trustees Report issued last Friday.
The report stipulates that HI Trust Fund expenditures have exceeded annual income since 2008, a pattern...
Los Angeles Times | Within the next few weeks, lawyers from 27 states will urge three U.S. appeals courts to strike down President Obama's healthcare law.
President Obama's healthcare law faces a series of challenges in three appeals courts starting Tuesday as Republican lawyers from 27...
Miami Herald | A proposal to give UM doctors working at Jackson Memorial Hospital state lawsuit protection was approved.
In a long-sought move, the University of Miami won a legislative victory on Wednesday when Florida lawmakers agreed to extend state lawsuit protection to university doctors working...
HealthLeadersMedia | A new rule from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is expected to make it easier for small and critical access hospitals to use telemedicine to link with physicians and other larger hospitals or academic medical centers. The change will also make it easier...
