New Mexico news and information

With the anticipated arrival of some 14 million newly insured individuals into the nation's healthcare system in 2014, a major concern that remains is whether coverage will equal access. Texas lawmakers, physicians and nurse practitioners have taken a step forward on that problem while many other...
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Building on its success from the past 10 years, Project ECHO has established a national institute to replicate its model of using “telementoring” to improve the expertise of primary-care clinicians so they can better treat patients with chronic...
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Dealing with two new owners and meeting seven new quality metrics in just five months has made for a frenetic year for Dr. Robert White at his Albuquerque medical practice.
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Reality is squeezing down what had been a massive pilot project targeting the disproportionately expensive care for Americans enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid.
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In California, the most populous state in the country, one might think that insurers would be tripping over themselves to get plans on Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange. But that would be wrong.
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LOS ANGELES—Roseville, Calif.-based Adventist Health agreed to pay $14.1 million to resolve allegations that it improperly compensated physicians who referred patients to the system's White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles. White Memorial also agreed to enter a five-year corporate...
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The New Mexico Human Service Department has announced that four companies will share around $4 billion in federal money to provide Medicaid to around 700,000 residents next year.
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Whether millions of Americans get the coverage envisioned in the healthcare reform law will come down to this: whether governors can stomach leaving federal money on the table. Even some of the law's fiercest critics now say they won't.
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Republican Gov. Susana Martinez says New Mexico will follow provisions of a federal healthcare law to expand the state's Medicaid program to potentially provide medical services to 170,000 low-income adults.
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Ten more states have submitted their plans to operate a state-based insurance exchange in 2014, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Monday, days after an extended deadline for states to apply for that calendar year.
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