Starting in 2013, a growing number of insurance companies are likely to begin 100 percent coverage of comprehensive preventive services for women, including a wide range of contraceptives, because of developments set in motion by a report an Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel. Read more »
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a 56-page proposed rule that aims to help launch new consumer-oriented health plans in every state. Read more »
Accountable care organizations (ACOs) may have grabbed plenty of attention when it comes to coordinated care in Medicare. But the ACO program's cousin—payment bundling—is also on the way, and maybe sooner than expected. Read more »
Just because you build it doesn't mean they'll necessary come—at least not right away. That's been the history of various government programs to cover the uninsured, ranging from Medicaid to the Children's Health Insurance Program to, most recently, the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan under the health care overhaul. Read more »
It's one of the biggest decisions they have to make under the health law—but Health and Human Services officials are remaining resolutely mum about whether Uncle Sam will deny insurers access to the health benefit exchanges it runs if they give consumers a lousy deal. Read more »
The American Hospital Association's Board of Trustees has elected Benjamin K. Chu, who is group president of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in Southern California and Hawaii, as its chairman-elect designate. And Maureen Bisognano has been elected to The Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors. Read more »