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Lawmakers ask officials about Advantage plan bonus program

By Jessica Zigmond | July 20, 2012 | Basic Web

Two House lawmakers have demanded answers from HHS and the CMS about the Medicare Advantage Quality Bonus Demonstration Program after a recent federal report questioned HHS' legal authority to implement the program.
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NEWS ANALYSIS: Making it personal | Grass-roots appeal aims to boost S.C. town's health

By Lola Butcher | March 24, 2012 | Print Magazine

Can the community organizing tactics that empowered migrant farm workers in the 1970s and helped elect President Barack Obama in 2008 empty out America's overloaded emergency departments?Six physicians-turned-organizers are working in Columbia, S.C., to find out.
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Under their influence | Washington insiders hold sway over our ‘100 Most Influential' ranking, but real change seems to be coming from elsewhere

By Andis Robeznieks | August 22, 2011 | Print Magazine

The nation's political forces are bitterly divided over issues ranging from raising the country's debt ceiling to the use of energy-efficient light bulbs, so it's no surprise that the government's role in healthcare is also the source of intense debate.
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100 Most Influential People in Healthcare (text list)

By Modern Healthcare | August 22, 2011 | Print Magazine

This year's ranking of the 100 Most Influential People includes 27 newcomers as well as 10 honorees who have been on every list since it started in 2002.
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Thrown a curve | CMS' actuaries: Healthcare spending will continue to increase, despite reform law promises

By Rich Daly | August 01, 2011 | Print Magazine

The landmark 2010 healthcare law will not slow the nation's ballooning healthcare spending in the coming decade, and it will drive spending away from hospitals and toward physicians and pharmaceuticals, according to projections from the government's healthcare actuaries.
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Reform law won't bend cost curve, CMS accountants say

By Rich Daly | July 28, 2011 | Basic Web

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will not “bend the cost curve” of national healthcare spending over the coming decade, according to the latest projections by the CMS' accountants.
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Tighter Medicaid eligibility considered

By Rich Daly | July 25, 2011 | Basic Web

Bipartisan support for tightening Medicaid eligibility could allow such a measure's inclusion in a deficit-reduction deal, according to congressional sources.
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Neb. lawmaker seeks to fix Medicaid ‘glitch' in reform bill

By Rich Daly | July 16, 2011 | Basic Web

The latest provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act targeted for repeal is a component allowing older people earning up $64,000 to qualify for free coverage under Medicaid.
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Risk to hospital profitability highlighted

By Rich Daly | July 13, 2011 | Basic Web

Medicare's senior accountant highlighted in congressional testimony Wednesday a little-noted prediction that 40% of hospitals will become unprofitable by 2050 under a provision of the healthcare reform law, which will cause them to drop out of the program or go bankrupt.
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GOP lawmakers fear middle-class Medicaid rush

By Jessica Zigmond | June 24, 2011 | Basic Web

Worried that Medicaid will become an entitlement program for the middle class, a small group of House Republicans has asked HHS about a healthcare reform law provision that could add about 5 million more beneficiaries to the federal program.
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