Senate Passes COVID-19 Stimulus Deal
On Wednesday, the Senate passes a stimulus deal that would aid healthcare systems across the United States. The $2 trillion stimulus deal will include $100 billion to compensate for lost [...]
Interoperability Rules Finalized by HHS
Two agencies from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final rules for interoperability and information-blocking proposals. Interoperability, which means the ability of health information systems [...]
Trump’s Proposed Policy Aims to Give Patients Control of Health Records
The Trump Administration is proposing a policy that will also patient medical records to be accessible to patients. The policy will give patients access to their personal medical records easily [...]
Profits from CSR Payments Examined by Judges
On Thursday, judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit raised their concerns that insurers were overly compensated from the subsidies received from the government is giving them, [...]
Stark Law Changes Supported by Physicians, Hospitals
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are pushing to change Stark law statutes to facilitate providers to be in value-based contracts without the concern of being blamed for [...]
Surprise Billing Legislation Omitted from Year-End Spending Deal
After months of debate over surprise billing and how to protect patients from out-of-network charges, lawmakers were not able to come to a compromise on the surprise billing proposal, failing [...]
Spending Bill Repeals ACA Taxes
On Thursday, the U.S. Senate passed a spending bill that repeals three ACA taxes as well as postpones Medicaid payment cuts. The spending bill was voted for approval 71 - [...]
Risk Corridor Payments Brought to Supreme Court
On Tuesday, the United States Supreme Court heard a lawsuit pertaining to unpaid risk corridor payments ranging from 2014 to 2016. Risk corridor payments are a component of the Affordable [...]
ACA Enrollment Growing, Stays Lower than Last Year’s Signups
According to the statistics from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, open enrollment signups is still growing, but is not as substantial as previous years' enrollment. Currently, it is [...]