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Medicare hospital trust fund to last by 2024
Like last year's prediction, Medicare's hospital insurance (HI) trust fund will stay solvent until 2024, due in part to a 2 percent cut to provider payments scheduled for next year, according to the
HCA profits jump with high Medicare payments
Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Holdings saw its first-quarter profits jump, thanks to higher-than-expected Medicare reimbursements, Orlando Business Journal reported . The nation's biggest hospital chain
Justice Scalia: Reform without individual mandate would bankrupt payers
On the third and final day of Affordable Care Act hearings, the Supreme Court justices addressed the issue of severability--that is whether the rest of the healthcare reform law should be struck down
If individual mandate falls, will the rest the reform act fall too?
It's a technical issue, but one that will be important if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes does vote to strike down the individual mandate portion of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. If
Supreme Court grills government on individual mandate
In Supreme Court arguments yesterday, both sides got to argue the issue that's at the very heart of the healthcare reform debate: Can the government force Americans to buy health insurance? And is
3 ways to cut disproportionate healthcare spending
The new survey by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) concluding that 5 percent of the population account for half of all healthcare spending drew a lot of headlines but contained
Insurance premiums shot up 9%, straining hospitals
Health insurance costs rose more than 9 percent nationwide this year, according to a new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation and reported by the New York Times . Such a dramatic increase could add
$4.7B in cuts threaten Medicaid expansion
Although Medicaid coverage is expected to be dramatically expanded in 2014 as a result of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, program cuts enacted on the state level could hamper coverage
Independent Payment Advisory Board: Too much power, groups say
A mixture of lobbyists, pressure from Republican lawmakers and lukewarm support from Democrats could eventually kill the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), the Washington Post reports. A
Obama confident reform will survive legal scrutiny
Despite a recent reversal in a federal appeals court that almost certainly will send the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to the U.S. Supreme Court, President Barack Obama expressed
