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Innovation
Death By A Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong
The U.S. government claimed that turning American medical charts into electronic records would make healthcare better, safer, and cheaper. Ten...
Finance
Medicaid Work Requirements Could Cost Hospitals $3.7B
Work requirements could shrink Medicaid rolls and increased uncompensated care costs for hospitals in states that implement them.
Dems Slam Medicaid Overhaul in FY 2020 HHS Budget Proposal
Democrats rip the Trump administration for 'taking a hatchet to every part of the healthcare system,' undermining the ACA, slashing...
Innovation
New Health Plans Expose The Insured To More Risk
New types of insurance plans are sprouting up as employers face rising costs and individuals who buy their own coverage...
Innovation
Seema Verma Links 'Medicare-for-All' to 'Failed Socialist Healthcare'
The CMS administrator says a favorite talking point among Democratic presidential hopefuls poses 'the greatest threat to the American healthcare...
Finance
Medicare Trims Payments To 800 Hospitals, Citing Patient Safety Incidents
The number is the highest since the federal government five years ago launched the Hospital Acquired Conditions Reduction Program, created...
Strategy
With Industry Backing, American Hospital Association CEO Rebuffs 'Medicare-for-All'
Hospitals have joined with insurers, doctors, and drug makers on a coalition to oppose the policy, which has become a...
Washington AG Announces Intent to Sue Over Title X Rule
Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson said he will be seeking a temporary injunction to prevent the rule from taking...
Finance
Nearly 100 Insurers Have Won Challenges Over Halted CSR Payments
If these decisions hold up through a potential appeals process, they could result in the federal government owing billions of...
Strategy
House Officially Intervenes in High-Stakes Case to Defend ACA
Some have argued the House should focus on solving the pending ACA dispute through legislation, not litigation. Others argue the...
Shrinking Medicaid Rolls In Missouri And Tennessee Raise Flag On Vetting Process
State officials credit low unemployment with a drop in the Medicaid rolls, but patient advocates note that many who've lost...
House Hearing on ACA Lawsuit Gets Heated
Republicans and Democrats in the House Health Subcommittee met for the first time on Wednesday and spent most of their...