Cost estimates for a key part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law have ballooned by $111 billion from last year’s budget, and a senior Republican lawmaker on Friday demanded an explanation. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., wants to know by Monday why the estimated cost of helping millions of [...] [...]
Health care reform will change hospitals’ business models, according to a survey of human resource executives. The survey, performed by global professional services company Towers Watson, found that workforce issues, the need for a wider array of staff skills and new leadership models will rise in importance as the hospital industry grapples with the transformation [...] [...]
When 510,000 people are added to Colorado’s heath insurance rolls in 2014, the state won’t need as many new primary care doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants as once was believed. An analysis by the Colorado Health Institute says that people won’t have to overwhelm emergency rooms once they get insurance – they’ll be other [...] [...]
The Supreme Court decided this morning to review the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision that found the individual responsibility provision of the Affordable Care Act unconstitutional. The court also said it would review the ruling in the same case that upheld the act’s expansion of Medicaid to millions of low-income Americans . The move [...] [...]
A conservative-leaning panel of federal appellate judges on Tuesday upheld President Barack Obama’s health care law as constitutional, helping set up a Supreme Court fight. A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued a split opinion upholding the law. The court agreed to dismiss a Christian legal group’s lawsuit [...] [...]
So far this year, more than 2.2 million people with Medicare have saved more than $1.2 billion on prescriptions, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. That averages out to $550 for every person, and more than 22.6 million seniors and people with disabilities across the country have taken advantage of at least [...] [...]
Nonprofits seeking grant information and work force development initiative money available through the Affordable Care Act can now go to a single location: Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet’s website. The guide to grants includes a directory of departments and offices in charge of administering programs and is organized by title of the ACA. Included is a [...] [...]
The Colorado Department of Health and Environment has received an award of $400,000 from the federal government to make “fundamental changes” in health departments around the state. The grant comes from the Affordable Care Act and is administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The goal is to create an effective public health [...] [...]
A federal appeals court in Virginia has dismissed two lawsuits that had claimed President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul was unconstitutional. The unanimous decision was issued Thursday by a three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. It is the second appellate court ruling affirming the government’s right to require individuals to buy [...] [...]
Concerns about bias, undue industry influence and conflicts of interest have been raised by consumer health groups as the state’s newly created health insurance exchange board prepares to hold its first meeting Monday. The board is responsible for creating the health insurance exchanges by 2014, the year they must be implemented. Created by the Affordable [...] [...]
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