"Examining The HHS Projections For 2017 Marketplace Enrollment (Updated)", Health Affairs Blog, October 19, 2016. DOI: 10.1377/hblog20161019.057164 ...

This is the annual hodge-podge of changes to the risk adjustment, reinsurance, and risk corridors programs, cost sharing parameters, cost-sharing reductions, and Healthcare.gov user fees, usually ...

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2017 Advance Rate Notice and draft Call Letter (“2017 Draft Call Letter”) for the Medicare Advantage (“MA”) and ...

Here are 10 key points from CMS’ proposed IPPS rule for FY 2017. 1. CMS recommended acute care hospitals that report quality data and that are also meaningful users of EHRs receive a 0.85 ...

2017 rewind: HHS applauds regulatory rollbacks, other ‘accomplishments’ that divided the healthcare industry. By Ilene MacDonald Jan 29, 2018 11:06am. Affordable Care Act (ACA) Disaster ...

CMS has issued its inpatient prospective payment systems final rule for fiscal year 2017, which does away with the two-midnight rule’s inpatient pay cuts. The 2,434-page rule also includes rate ...

The Obama administration projected Wednesday that 13.8 million people will sign up for ObamaCare coverage next year, a modest amount of growth in what officials acknowledge is likely to be a ...

February 10, 2017 More than 8 years ago Tom Price, a vehement critic of the Affordable Care Act, is President Trump's secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

CMS estimates that the combined effect of all the policies in the CY 2017 proposal, affecting more than 11,000 home health agencies (HHAs), would result in a 1 percent decrease in payments (i.e ...