Chip Kahn news and information

President Barack Obama's re-election delivered healthcare executives some certainty that the bulk of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will be implemented, yet little clue how the president and Congress will treat healthcare programs in their quest to control federal spending.
FULL STORY »

Looming deficit-reduction negotiations coming soon after Tuesday's federal elections could result in larger-than-expected cuts to hospitals, some health leaders warned.
FULL STORY »

This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare includes 18 newcomers as well as eight honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
FULL STORY »

During confirmation hearings in 2005 after he was nominated to become the next chief justice of the United States, John Roberts described a judge's role as that of an “umpire.”
FULL STORY »

A U.S. senator for 31 years and the author of more than 2,000 sometimes hard-to-decipher Twitter messages, Chuck Grassley also has had a long run on the annual 100 Most Influential rankings.
FULL STORY »

HHS officials have no cause for alarm that the U.S. House of Representatives' most recent repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will move beyond the House floor, but they may be worried that two pilot programs related to the law are drawing heavy criticism.
FULL STORY »

In lengthy letters to the CMS, the nation's largest hospital associations again expressed concern about what they see as a structural weakness in how the agency determines the effect of documentation and coding at hospitals.
FULL STORY »

The Senate easily passed a reauthorization of the Food and Drug Administration's drug and device user-fee programs and authorized new generic and biosimilar user-fee programs.
FULL STORY »

An association representing for-profit hospitals is waving the caution flag at “ambitious” CMS plans to better coordinate care among beneficiaries eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid.
FULL STORY »

A CMS proposal that could apply False Claims Act liabilities to Medicare overpayments going back 10 years has met with an avalanche of criticism from hospitals, physicians and industry attorneys.
FULL STORY »