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The House Judiciary Committee today held a subcommittee hearing on legislation to repeal the antitrust exemption available to health insurers for anticompetitive conduct, including price fixing, bid rigging and market allocation. The Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act (H.R.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued a proposed rule designed to help stabilize the Health Insurance Marketplaces. The rule proposes changes in six areas: special enrollment periods; guaranteed issue; actuarial value; network adequacy; qualified health plan…
Under current law, national health expenditures are projected to grow an average 5.6% annually during 2016-2025, outpacing average projected growth in gross domestic product by 1.2 percentage points, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of the Actuary reported today.…
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration today postponed the effective date of its final rule on confidentiality of substance use disorder patient records to March 21.
Humana this week announced plans to withdraw from the Health Insurance Marketplaces in 2018. “[B]ased on its initial analysis of data associated with the company’s health care exchange membership following the 2017 open enrollment period, Humana is seeing further signs of an…
Aetna announced today that it would not appeal its loss in U.S. District Court last month. It will pay Humana $1 billion as a result.
An estimated 28.2 million U.S. residents (8.8%) lacked health insurance when surveyed during the first nine months of 2016, according to a report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The uninsured rate for adults under age 65 was 9.3% in Medicaid expansion states…
The Senate last night voted 100-0 to approve President Trump’s nomination of David Shulkin, M.D., to serve as Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Shulkin has served as VA under secretary for health since July 2015. His diverse health care background includes service as a physician, chief medical…
A new report from the AHA’s Committee on Research explores what the next generation of community health may look like as hospitals and health systems redefine themselves to keep pace with the changing health care landscape.
An article published online this month by the journal Population Health Management, co-authored by AHA Chief Medical Officer Jay Bhatt, D.O., proposes seven foundational principles of population health policy to inform the development of practical tools, research and education.