Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about how the Medicaid expansion is shaking out in Virginia and Texas, as well as a report about the role health care is playing as the House attempts to negotiate… - 27 mins ago, 22 May 13, 11:20am -
The members of Congress are questioning Sebelius' efforts to solicit funds for Enroll America, which is trying to help get people signed up for benefits under the federal health law. - 22 hours ago, 21 May 13, 1:17pm -
A selection of health policy news from California, Louisiana, Vermont, Minnesota, North Carolina, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. - 23 hours ago, 21 May 13, 1:15pm -
News reports from Texas, Louisiana, Iowa, Florida and Maine highlight states' continuing debates over this health law provision. - 23 hours ago, 21 May 13, 1:14pm -
House Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats countered GOP claims that the health law is driving up insurance premiums by analyzing initial rate filings in five states. - 23 hours ago, 21 May 13, 1:14pm -
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including stories examining how the approaching implementation of some health law provisions is highlighting key policy questions. - 1 day ago, 21 May 13, 11:23am -
The Obama administration's efforts to raise money from private sources for the health law have led some likely donors to become "skittish." Meanwhile, as GOP lawmakers seek to link the Internal Revenue Service issues to the health law, media outlets… - 2 days ago, 20 May 13, 2:10pm -
The Congressional Budget Office estimated Friday that President Obama's budget would reduce Medicare spending by $364 billion over the next decade and would reduce future budget deficits. The White House and Congress will likely soon need to work on… - 2 days ago, 20 May 13, 1:33pm -
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- A congressional hearing on increasing patient cost sharing as a mechanism for Medicare reform turned into a call for broad changes to provider incentives in the program. - 14 hours ago, 21 May 13, 9:33pm -
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The maker of a methotrexate sodium injectable product is initiating a voluntary recall of two lots of the product following the discovery of particulate matter in the vials. - 19 hours ago, 21 May 13, 4:46pm -
(MedPage Today) -- The path to becoming a patient-centered medical home is long, rough, and varies for each practice, but getting there is essential to providing high-quality, affordable healthcare, researchers concluded. - 1 day ago, 20 May 13, 11:48pm -
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- An experimental insomnia drug was effective in inducing sleep in several studies, but FDA staff reviewers question the need for higher doses of the drug. - 2 days ago, 20 May 13, 6:56pm -
(MedPage Today) -- The mystery of why a drug for one autoimmune disease can cause another may have been solved. Also this week: a new oral nimodipine formulation aimed at reducing medication errors. - 3 days ago, 19 May 13, 6:00pm -
(MedPage Today) -- Only 1,200 people in the U.S. have the specific genetic mutation that causes a rare form of cystic fibrosis -- two of them are a Wisconsin brother and sister, Charles and Paula Heup. The Heup siblings are taking Kalydeco to treat t… - 3 days ago, 19 May 13, 5:01am -
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- In an otherwise rough week politically for President Obama, the president did score a victory when his latest nominee to run Medicare, Medicaid, and health reform implementation was confirmed by the Senate. - 4 days ago, 18 May 13, 4:00pm -
(MedPage Today) -- NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Medicare is likely in the near future to consider all health conditions when it calculates penalties for not holding down hospital readmissions, quality improvement experts said here Friday. - 5 days ago, 17 May 13, 7:34pm -
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The Obama administration is trying to allow states greater flexibility to change their Medicaid programs without asking the federal government for special waivers, a top health official said Thursday. - 6 days ago, 16 May 13, 10:32pm -
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Accountable care organizations -- a key to federal health reform efforts -- will rarely be successful and won't generate the cost savings advocates hope for, a vocal critic asserted. - 6 days ago, 16 May 13, 4:40pm -
The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): More than half of U.S. doctors have switched to electronic health records and are using them to manage patients' basic medical information and prescriptions, according to federal data set to be… - 10 mins ago, 22 May 13, 11:37am -
Healthcare Informatics: Amid the turmoil of Associated Press wiretaps, Benghazi talking points and Internal Revenue Service malfeasance and the 27th House attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, there was some substantive activity in Washington la… - 10 mins ago, 22 May 13, 11:37am -
Politico: House immigration negotiators have given themselves until the end of the week to hash out language on what kind of health benefits should be available to undocumented immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship, a crucial issue for the talks. - 11 mins ago, 22 May 13, 11:36am -
The New York Times: The Texas House passed a measure on Tuesday that would prevent the state from expanding its Medicaid program as outlined by President Obama’s health care law. - 12 mins ago, 22 May 13, 11:35am -
Healthcare IT News: One month after six Republican Senators published a white paper calling for a new approach to the federal meaningful use incentive program, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association has drafted a point-by-point response. - 12 mins ago, 22 May 13, 11:35am -
The Washington Post: “The governor has a notion that you can move away from medical billing and towards a more flexible approach to health-care spending that makes more sense for the community,” John McConnell, a health economist at Oregon Health… - 13 mins ago, 22 May 13, 11:34am -
Sacramento Bee: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- About 17,000 Californians with serious medical problems will be moved from a state-run stopgap health insurance program to a federal plan starting in July, ensuring they will have no break in medical coverage unt… - 14 mins ago, 22 May 13, 11:33am -
The New York Times: A federal appellate panel struck down Arizona’s abortion law on Tuesday, saying it was unconstitutional “under a long line of invariant Supreme Court precedents” that guarantee a woman’s right to end a pregnancy any time b… - 14 mins ago, 22 May 13, 11:33am -
Forbes: Mainly, it tells us that there’s not much of a market.On May 8 the Department of Health and Human Services released 17,500 pages of data on the prices U.S. hospitals charge for the 100 most common hospital services. - 18 mins ago, 22 May 13, 11:29am -
Modern Healthcare (complimentary online subscription): Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has introduced a Senate version of the Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013, a bill aimed at blocking HHS from implementing the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes, which… - 24 hours ago, 21 May 13, 11:54am -
