Access & Health Coverage
Legislation to revamp Medicare’s telehealth legislation should address several statutory restrictions that stand in the way of modernizing coverage and payment for telehealth services, the AHA last week told a congressional working group that recently circulated a draft proposal.
In a Jan.…
The AHA today called a House discussion draft of legislation to improve Medicare’s coverage and payment for telehealth services “a step in the right direction,” and applauded the members of a House Energy & Commerce Committee working group on telehealth for taking on the issue.
The marketplace for health insurance has become increasingly consumer-driven, with important implications for the way care is paid for and delivered.
The Senate June 11 voted 93-3 to pass legislation (H.R. 3230) to improve veterans access to care.
The IRS published in the March 10, 2014 Federal Register two final rules: Information Reporting of Minimum Essential Coverage and Information Reporting by Applicable Large Employers on Health Insurance Coverage Offered Under Employer-Sponsored Plans.
CMS published in the Dec. 23, 2013 Federal Register a proposed methodology for determining payments to states under the Basic Health Program for 2015.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is changing how private insurance is bought and sold in the U.S.
AHA today filed a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Department of Health and Human Services in a federal lawsuit seeking to exclude all drugs with an orphan designation from an HHS final rule expanding the 340B drug discount program to rural and cancer hospitals under the Patient…