Obama administration officials, touting $2.5 billion recovered from Medicare overpayments and fraud, immediately turned to talk of how health reform could ensure bigger successes in the future.
(Story) May 13, 2010
Republicans have begun attacking Donald Berwick, a doctor and Harvard professor nominated to head the Obama administration's Medicare and Medicaid agency.
(Daily Report) May 13, 2010
State Roundup: Schwarzenegger plan expected to call for dismantling some health care programs; small businesses in Mass. oppose plan to shift children's developmental costs; Texas prison health services in peril.
(Daily Report) May 13, 2010
Lou Saccoccio, of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, is on a mission: to stop - or at least cut down - the $65 billion stolen from the government every year.
(Daily Report) May 12, 2010
Lou Saccoccio, of the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association, is on a mission: to stop - or at least cut down - the $65 billion stolen from the government every year.
(Story) May 12, 2010
Despite fears from community health activists, R.I. revamp of Medicaid program for the elderly and disabled has saved the state money and allowed many beneficiaries to stay in their homes rather than going to nursing homes, Stateline.org reports.
(Daily Report) May 11, 2010
States handle a range of health care policy issues.
(Daily Report) May 10, 2010
People who are dying currently can’t get Medicare to pay for hospice care if they continue aggressive curative treatment. But the new health overhaul law could lead to a major change in olicy that allows both hospice and curative care.
(Daily Report) May 10, 2010
People who are dying currently can’t get Medicare to pay for hospice care if they continue aggressive curative treatment. But the new health overhaul law could lead to a major change in olicy that allows both hospice and curative care.
(Story) May 10, 2010
Today, we begin a new Friday afternoon feature: a wrap-up of the week's major health policy news coverage.
(Story) May 07, 2010