82% Oppose Reducing Medicare Funding to U.S. Nursing Home Care; 55% “Strongly Oppose”;

90% Say Funding for U.S. Nursing Home Care Should Either “Remain Same” or “Increase”;

69% Support 3 Year Phase-In of 2011 Medicare Regulation Reducing Funding by 1…

Nearly 3.6 million people with Medicare saved $2.1 billion on their prescription drugs in 2011 thanks to the Affordable Care Act according to data issued today by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Savings for people with Medicare will …

Low-income Medicare beneficiaries are eligible for subsidies to help them pay premiums and cost sharing. However, these subsidies fall short of those contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that help low-income families affor…

Tax Will Cost State Medicaid Programs $38.4 Billion Over Ten Years

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A new report from actuarial consulting firm Milliman, Inc. shows a provision of the health reform law intended to tax health ins…

Medicare Advantage premiums have fallen by 7 percent on average and enrollment has risen by about 10 percent since this time last year, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — A whistleblower law passed 25 years ago to little fanfare has helped the government recover more than $30 billion and become the government’s most successful weapon in the fight against Medicare fraud, defense …

Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care Says New Data Adds Key Context in
Accurately Assessing SNF Sector Instability

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Representing the most comprehensive publicly available multi-year evaluation …

A national study of Medicaid data shows most young people who present to emergency departments with deliberate self-harm are discharged to the community, without receiving an emergency mental health assessment. Even more, a roughly comparable proportio…

BALTIMORE, Jan. 27, 2012  /PRNewswire/ – XLHealth, the nation’s leading provider of health plan solutions for Medicare beneficiaries with special needs, is one of four organizations participating in a Capitol Hill briefing being held today f…

FORT WORTH, Texas, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Healthpoint Biotherapeutics today advised that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has eliminated the physician 90-day global surgical period for the application of all skin and dermal s…