By Andis Robeznieks | August 24, 2013
| Print Magazine
Six elected officials are included in this year's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare list, and it's an even mix: three Democrats, three Republicans; three based in Washington, three based in the states; and three... FULL STORY »
By Jonathan Block and Jessica Zigmond | August 23, 2013
| Basic Web
The rate of self-funded health insurance among smaller businesses has remained relatively stable during the past decade, but that may change soon. Many businesses see self-funding as a way to skirt requirements of the healthcare reform law. FULL STORY »
Two months before open enrollment begins on the state insurance exchanges, CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner downplayed concerns from GOP lawmakers that the 2010 healthcare law will hurt jobs and expressed confidence that the employer mandate delay won't affect the law's implementation. FULL STORY »
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar / Associated Press | May 27, 2013
If Republicans were writing a movie script for next year's congressional elections, the working title might be "2014: Apocalypse of Obamacare." FULL STORY »
Legislators on both sides of the aisle and on both sides of Capitol Hill are touting their early start on overhauling the Medicare physician payment system. However, those claims of progress will soon run into hard realities: No one has yet come up with a concrete plan to address the biggest... FULL STORY »
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus opened the panel's first hearing in six years on Medicare physician pay with assertive rhetoric about scrapping the hated sustainable growth-rate formula this year. . FULL STORY »
Physician advocates see signs of progress in the Senate Finance Committee's hearing Tuesday—the panel's first in six years on replacing Medicare's physician payment system. FULL STORY »
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