Scams, Fraud Among Obamacare Concerns
The health care overhaul could create an opening for unscrupulous businesses.
The health care overhaul could create an opening for unscrupulous businesses.
Howard Dean is annoyed. He wants his own arguments to be evaluated on their merits, regardless of where he works these days. “I do work part-time for a law firm. And a law firm has clients,” he told TIME on Monday, after …
Earlier this month, the Washington Post published a blockbuster front-page story about a secretive committee that determines what Medicare pays physicians for their work. Part of the American Medical Association (AMA), the …
Obamacare is coming and with it a new wave of hospital consolidation
Today President Barack Obama will seek to redirect public attention away from the slow but steady drip of recent news stories about the imperfections of Obamacare.
Although the United States does not have the world’s best health outcomes or the most cost effective care, we still lead the world in medical innovation. American researchers and companies dominate fields like drug development and medical devices. There’s no better sign of how quickly U.S. medical technology and technique evolves …
The Obama Administration’s recent announcement that the Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate will kick in a year late could ripple beyond the brief extension, increasing costs and complicating implementation of other vital parts of the law.
Of all the oddities of the U.S. health care system, one stands out: we spend far more on health care per person than other industrialized nations yet have no better health outcomes.
In recent months, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has released a massive trove of 2011 Medicare claims data for inpatient and outpatient procedures. The spreadsheets containing this data include information on …
Championed by Arizona Rep. Trent Franks, the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act is symbolic.
Imagine this: You get a hospital bill in the mail and, before paying it, you plug its contents into a smartphone app. Up pops information on whether the prices you’ve been charged are in line with national averages, along with …
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is now under fire from local labor organizers who want to unionize its workforce, a competing health care system that’s eyeing its customer base and, lately, the mayor of Pittsburgh.
Miami’s Mount Sinai Medical Center has pledged to publicly disclose its price contracts with insurers