News tagged with health care reform

Related topics: health care , health insurance , affordable care , barack obama , health care system




Many states say 'no' to health insurance exchanges

(HealthDay)—Half of the states in the nation have rebuffed a key provision of the Obama administration's health reform law: the creation of state-based health insurance exchanges, according to data compiled ...

Health created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New mobile app helps providers better document conditions and care

One of the key features of health care reform is the linking of outcomes with reimbursement, a development that places even greater urgency on the thoroughness and accuracy of documenting a patient's condition ...

Health created Dec 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US health care could shrink for illegal immigrants (Update)

(AP)—President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul threatens to roll back some services for the country's estimated 11 million illegal immigrants if clinics and hospitals are overwhelmed with newly ...

Health created Dec 14, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Low percentage of medical residents plan to practice general internal medicine

Colin P. West, M.D., Ph.D., and Denise M. Dupras, M.D., Ph.D., of Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., conducted a study to evaluate career plans of internal medicine residents.

Other created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Prohibitive reimbursement may restrict hospice enrollment in patients requiring high-cost care

In the first national survey of enrollment policies at hospices, researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Yale University have found that the vast majority of hospices in the United States have at least one enrollment ...

Health created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Barriers to the launch of accountable care identified

(HealthDay)—Health care reform presents a unique opportunity for medical health centers to integrate systems of care, such as accountable care organizations (ACOs), but not without facing several barriers ...

Health created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients with online access to clinicians, medical records have increased use of clinical services

Patients with online access to their medical records and secure e-mail communication with clinicians had increased use of clinical services, including office visits and telephone encounters, compared to patients who did not ...

Health created Nov 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US extends key deadline of Obama healthcare reform law

US states will be given additional time to decide whether to put in place a key aspect of President Barack Obama's health care reform program, the administration's top health policy official said Thursday.

Health created Nov 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

More than a million women could gain access to potentially life saving tests for cancer

A study by researchers at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) indicates that full implementation of the Affordable Care Act would expand health insurance coverage for more ...

Cancer created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Green light for Obamacare: Panelists assess road ahead, including potential bumps

After three major scares, President Obama's health care reform law is now part of the nation's legal and health care landscape, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) panelists said Thursday, though its effects ...

Health created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research on employment-based insurance sheds light on health care reform

Men with employment-contingent health insurance (ECHI) who suffer a health shock, such as a cancer diagnosis or hospitalization, are more likely to feel "locked" into remaining at work and are at greater risk for losing their ...

Health created Nov 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Report explores health care reform and U.S. election

As part of a collaboration between Yale and the London School of Economics (LSE), Zack Cooper, assistant professor of health policy and economics at Yale, has distilled the complexities of U.S. health care ...

Health created Nov 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Health care history through humor

Featuring more than 200 examples of the century's best political art, a new history of health care reform provides an entertaining review of 100 years of partisan wrangling – from Theodore Roosevelt's support ...

Health created Oct 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Medicare beneficiaries overspend by hundreds, research finds

Medicare beneficiaries are overpaying by hundreds of dollars annually because of difficulties selecting the ideal prescription drug plan for their medical needs, an investigation by University of Pittsburgh Graduate School ...

Health created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radiology is front and center in health care reform

While it's leveling off, a decade of increased use of sophisticated, expensive, imaging studies has put radiologists and their specialty front and center in health care reform, says the chair of an academic ...

Other created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0