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The U.S Preventive Services Task Force recently expanded the list of approved colorectal cancer screening tests. Here鈥檚 a primer on these various tests and how they might be covered now and in the future by health insurance.
It鈥檚 not clear yet if the full Senate or House will concur in the plan to cut funding for the State Health Insurance Assistance Program, which operates in all states and gives beneficiaries free advice on enrollment in drug and insurance plans, appealing coverage decisions and applying for financial subsidies.
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission outlined a package of changes to Medicare鈥檚 drug program that could save billions of dollars.
Although there is widespread agreement on the need to let people know if they haven鈥檛 been admitted, the language proposed by federal officials hasn鈥檛 satisfied everyone.
Investigators from the GAO call for HHS to improve oversight of the Medicare appeals process and streamline it to make sure repetitive claims are handled more efficiently.
The plans, which do not qualify as coverage under the Affordable Care Act and put consumers at risk of a tax penalty, can siphon healthy people away from the online marketplaces because they are generally less expensive.
Researchers report that performance standards set by federal health officials may have led to many patients being dropped from transplant lists without improving survival rates.
Thousands of Floridians patronize storefront businesses that help them buy cheaper drugs online from Canada and other countries, but the Food and Drug Administration calls the practice illegal and risky.
The Missouri Hospital Association objects to the 51视频 for setting the federal penalties because it does not factor in the number of patients who are poor or in bad health. It is seeking to generate consumer interest in the penalties.
A proposal to change the way Medicare pays for some drugs has set off intense reaction and lobbying 鈥 all tied to a common theme: How far should the government go in setting prices for prescription drugs?
A pilot project in which doctors provide primary care at home for very frail Medicare beneficiaries saved $25 million in 2014, and nine of the 14 practices participating earned bonuses totaling nearly $12 million.
Federal officials delayed the release of the ratings after the hospital industry and members of Congress objected to the 51视频, saying it worked against hospitals that take the patients that are the toughest to treat.
The U.S. faces a variety of serious concerns beyond just the future of the federal health law.
A May Health Affairs study examines how Medicare鈥檚 eligibility age affects spending and prices, as well as the volume of services used by patients.
New research highlights the paradox in the federal program to improve hospital quality.
Bad coordination and communication can put patients at risk as they're discharged from a hospital.
The effort, which will replace a controversial reimbursement schedule that began in 1997, is designed to move away from paying for quantity of services and focus instead on quality.
The idea is this: Negotiate a flat price with a few hospitals to cover surgery, physical therapy and certain other post-op treatments. Companies save money and hospitals gain patients.
The 鈥渙verall hospital quality鈥 rating is designed to help consumers who are sometimes confused by the variety of quality measures that the government already provides. But members of Congress had asked for the delay because of concerns that the methodology for the stars was not accurate.
Nearly half of academic medical centers will be penalized by the government this year for high rates of infections and other avoidable complications, but the hospitals say it shows they screen better for problems.
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