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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon yesterday signed state legislation reinstituting caps on non-economic damages in medical liability cases. In 2012, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional a 2005 state law setting a $350,000 cap on non-economic damages in medical liability cases. The new…
Hospital leaders today urged the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies to eliminate unnecessary regulatory burdens and support federal programs critical to maintaining access to care in rural communities.
President Obama yesterday announced he will nominate National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Karen DeSalvo, M.D., to serve as assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services. DeSalvo has been serving as acting assistant secretary for health since…
Among Americans with employer-sponsored health insurance, per capita spending on health care for people with diabetes grew more for children than for any other age group in 2012 (7%) and 2013 (9.6%), according to a report released today by the Health Care Cost Institute. Average per capita…
Hospital leaders today urged the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies to eliminate unnecessary regulatory burdens and support federal programs critical to maintaining access to care in rural communities.
The number of uninsured working-age adults fell by 16.9 million between September 2013 and February 2015, to 25.8 million, according to a survey by RAND Corporation published online today by Health Affairs. Based on a nationally representative panel of 1,589 adults, the survey tracked…
The Senate voted 51-48 last night to approve a fiscal year 2016 budget conference agreement. Approved by the House last week, the budget plan would balance the budget within 10 years while saving more than $5 trillion and repealing the Affordable Care Act.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued a “strategic vision” for how it will administer the Physician Quality Reporting System, Physician Feedback/Value-Based Payment Modifier Program and other physician quality reporting programs. The document outlines five…
An estimated 42% of Medicare fee-for-service payments were value-oriented in 2013, according to a scorecard released yesterday by Catalyst for Payment Reform. About one-third of the payments were related to pay-for-performance programs, 12% to shared savings programs and 2% to shared-risk…
AHA’s Center for Healthcare Governance has released a free two-part webinar on understanding Population Health Management. Presenters from Kaufman Hall define population health management for health care boards and executives, and describe its rationale and purpose. They also explore a…