Healthcare Reform news and information

There are rumblings that the glitches attending the rollout of the Affordable Care Act—along with the relentless campaign to sabotage or delay it in numerous states—mean the program is dead on arrival. But the history of an equally controversial and vast government effort, Medicare,...
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U.S. Senate leaders from both parties Monday indicated they're optimistic about reaching a deal to end the government shutdown with an agreement that sources say is likely to include a few Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act provisions.
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A new MGMA survey finds that more than half of physician practices say they had not yet decided whether they will participate in health plans sold on the new state insurance exchanges.
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Nearly two weeks after the debut of Covered California, the state's online insurance marketplace, its website still doesn't offer a way to find out which doctors and hospitals are included in each health plan. The website tool designed to help shoppers cross-reference providers launched last week,...
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Consumers shopping for health coverage in new online marketplaces may scratch their heads when they come to a handful of plans in Virginia: Why do some cost more than $1,800 a month? The reason: Those premiums reflect an add-on benefit for a type of costly surgery for obesity which makes them up to...
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For the past 12 days, a system costing more than $400 million and billed as a one-stop click-and-go hub for citizens seeking health insurance has thwarted the efforts of millions to simply log in.
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Visitors to the glitch-plagued HealthCare.gov site now can bypass the temperamental application interface and compare plans anonymously, as some of the state-run exchanges previously made possible. HHS added the feature after 10 days marked by system outages and lengthy wait times.
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Executives at Seattle Children's Hospital said they were stunned to learn they had been excluded from two health plans on Washington's new insurance exchange—but the same scenario may be playing out behind closed doors in higher-cost hospitals across the country.
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There are growing signs that repeal of the medical-device tax, fervently sought by the politically potent device industry, may be a key element in resolving the impasse in Congress over the budget and raising the debt ceiling.
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The physicians expected to provide the care to exchange plan members are wary about the new program, according to a Medical Group Management Association survey.
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