Greater proportions of not-for-profit and government hospitals than for-profit hospitals qualified for at least one category of Medicare payment adjustments last year, according to new findings from the Government Accountability Office.
About 97% of government-owned hospitals and 90% of not-for-profit hospitals paid by the Medicare program received at least one form of increased payment to the standard inpatient prospective-payment system last year.
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A new report from the Government Accountability Office provides 2013 health plan premiums in the individual market in all 50 states. It provides useful baseline information as insurers shift in 2014 to complying with the federal healthcare reform law's new rules governing the insurance market.
The premium information in the GAO report was taken from data submitted by insurers to the HHS Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight and displayed on the government's health plan finder website, HealthCare.gov.
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Rogue Internet pharmacies dispense medications without prescriptions, sell drugs that are counterfeit, expired or improperly labeled, and violate a slew of other laws, a new Government Accountability Office report says.
Such pharmacies have led to investigations by state and federal regulators, who told the GAO that there are “substantial challenges” in investigating and prosecuting these outfits, many of which are internationally based.
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States are poised to go on a health insurance exchange spending spree with money in the bank from the federal government.
As Republicans in Congress continue to gripe about spending on the health reform law, a new Government Accountability Office report found that although HHS has awarded around $3.7 billion to states to help establish health insurance exchanges, just over 10% of it—$380 million—had been spent as of March. Around 80% of that $380 million was spent on contracts and consulting, most of which went toward building out information technology systems.
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