Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including reports about how the latest round of payment rates for private Medicare plans led to stock market gains for insurers.
(Daily Report) Apr 03
These critical access hospitals, which are often in rural areas, get paid more generously by Medicare and are exempt from some federal reporting standards. But those exemptions may be hiding quality issues at the facilities.
(Story) Apr 02
A selection of health policy news from New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, Georgia, Minnesota, Kansas, Connecticut, Maryland, Oregon and California.
(Daily Report) Apr 02
The insurance industry won a major lobbying victory Monday after the Obama administration backtracked on an earlier plan to cut Medicare Advantage payments to insurers by 2.2 percent in 2014 and instead decided to give them a 3.3 percent increase.
(Daily Report) Apr 02
Quinnipiac University in Connecticut is recruiting its first class for the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine, with an eye toward meeting the coming demand for more primary care physicians.
(Daily Report) Apr 02
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including news that the administration is delaying a health law provision aimed at small business and also opting to increase payments to Medicare Advantage programs.
(Daily Report) Apr 02
New CDC data shows that nearly one in five boys have a medical diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Other public health issues highlighted by news outlets include stroke risks in younger people, prescription-drug deaths and OSHA policies.
(Daily Report) Apr 01
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including several articles examining the difficulties of implementing the health law.
(Daily Report) Apr 01
This week's studies come from The Urban Institute, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Heritage Foundation, the Center for Studying Health System Change, The Kaiser Family Foundation and other news outlets.
(Daily Report) Mar 29
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including coverage of renewed interest between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans to find ways to cut Medicare costs.
(Daily Report) Mar 29