One program led by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) called the Medicare-Medicaid Financial Alignment Initiative moves toward improving the coordination and quality of healthcare...
The high costs within the healthcare industry are often associated with managing the health of patients living with chronic medical conditions. At the J.P. Morgan’s Healthcare Conference in early...
One area in which the federal government has put in excessive amounts of funds is the managed care arena. The reasoning may be due to the growing elderly population of baby boomers. The US Government...
On Monday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) revealed that there will be 121 new accountable care organizations joining the ranks of Medicare ACOs and the Shared Savings...
When the Supreme Court ruled that Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is voluntary among the states, this set a precedence that allowed individual states to play...
When the medical industry including diagnostics and treatment became more complex and sophisticated in the early 1900s, everyday citizens began to see a surge in the costs for healthcare services. With...
On Monday, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed an amicus brief with the US Supreme Court that asks the justices to provide a writ of certiorari in a court case that claims...
Ever since the Supreme Court ruled that one stipulation within the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is not fully constitutional, states around the nation have taken the court’s decision...
The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) will audit 31 hospitals sprawled throughout Florida to assess whether or not their Medicaid managed-care plan contracts are indeed compliant...
