New Medicare model for paying doctors passes key test
BY LAUREN CLASON, THE HILL EXTRA - 04/13/17 03:00 PM EDT A far-reaching Medicare payment proposal cleared a crucial hurdle this week, as the federal health program seeks to reward…
Major Changes May Be Coming to Medicare
Published: Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:19 p.m. CDT • Updated: Thursday, April 13, 2017 11:19 p.m. CDT By Trudy Lieberman, Rural Health News Service What’s going to happen to Medicare?…
One in four U.S. consumers have had their personal medical information stolen
The Accenture study also finds that half of these victims were subject to medical identity theft and on average had to pay $2,500 in out-of-pocket costs per incident. Healthcare IT…
Modernizing Medicare with the QPP
HBMA- Dr. Kate Goodrich- 03/13/2017 Modernizing Medicare with the QPP Keeping Medicare’s Promise to Families Today and Tomorrow By Kate Goodrich, Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS), US Department…
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Electronic Medical Records
Crystal Lombardo- The Next Galaxy The advancement of technology has changed the way the entire world functions. One big change that has happened has to do with the medical world.…
Trump urges insurers to work together to ‘save Americans from Obamacare’
Will Obamacare survive? Washington Post - By Carolyn Y. Johnson and Juliet Eilperin February 27 at 12:19 PM President Trump met with major health insurers Monday morning, in the midst of…
The Trump administration just proposed big changes to Obamacare
Business Insider- Feb. 15, 2017, 9:54 AM- Bob Bryan The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Wednesday morning announced new proposed rules for the Affordable Care Act's individual insurance…
Doctors Make the Case for Obamacare or Something Like It
NBC News -HEALTH- Maggie Fox -FEB 2 2017, 6:20 PM ET Congress should improve Obamacare without taking away what's best about it, doctors said Thursday. Doctors who treat women and…
How Large Employer Health Plans Could Be Affected By Obamacare Overhaul
Kaiser Health News- January 19, 2017 5:00 AM ET MICHELLE ANDREWS If you think that you wouldn't be touched by a Republican overhaul of Obamacare because you get health insurance through…
Senate Takes First Step To Repeal Obamacare — So What’s Next?
NPR -January 12, 20175:04 AM ET Heard on Morning Edition - Danielle Kurtzleben / Alisa Chang -With reporting from Susan Davis. At about 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, Republicans moved one…