kaisernetwork.org – Feb. 19, 2009. Summaries of some the potential effects of the recently enacted economic stimulus package appear in this article, including COBRA subsidies, effectiveness research, effects on hospitals and states. Click title to read more… Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report provides the following analyses: COBRA subsidies: Some employers have raised concerns that a […]
kaisernetwork.org – February 22, 2009. The American College of Emergency Physicians last week said that a University of Chicago Medical Center initiative to divert patients from its emergency department is “dangerously close to patient dumping,” which would violate federal law, the Chicago Tribune reports. ACEP said the medical center is “failing in its obligation to […]
kaisernetwork.org – February 22, 2009. Modeling the U.S. health care system after Massachusetts’ health insurance law would leave many residents without affordable health coverage, according to analysis by three Harvard Medical School physicians and a letter signed by 500 state physicians sent to Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), the Boston Globe‘s “Political Intelligence” blog reports. According […]
Kaisernetwork.org – Feb. 23, 2009. President Obama on Thursday plans to announce his FY 2010 budget proposal, which will include funds for health care programs, the Wall Street Journal reports (Bendavid, Wall Street Journal, 2/19). The Obama “administration is not prepared to submit a full budget, complete with the thick volumes of appendices and historical […]
HealthLeadersMedia.com – Friday, February 20, 2009. Since last fall, many of the leading figures in the nation’s healthcare debate have been meeting secretly in a Senate hearing room. Now, they appear to be inching toward a consensus that could reshape the debate. Many of the parties, from big insurance companies to lobbyists for consumers, doctors, […]
HealthLeadersMedia.com – February 23, 2009. The only hospital in Clayton County, GA, is trying to fill 80 vacancies and recruit back physicians and patients who have taken their business to other area hospitals. Southern Regional Health System’s interim chief executive said progress has been made since last month, when officials had to beg the county […]
HealthLeadersMedia.com – February 23, 2009. The federal stimulus package is expected to lead to termination of a state plan to tax hospital revenues. The addition of $1.73 billion in stimulus aid for the state Medicaid program has almost certainly killed the proposed levy on hospital revenues, according to legislative leaders and healthcare industry officials. A […]
HealthLeadersMedia.com – Feb. 24, 2009. When President Obama included money in his economic stimulus plan to help people identify the most cost-effective medical care, he set off one of the sharpest, and most unexpected, political fights of his young administration. The “comparative-effectiveness” issue was supposed to help lay the groundwork for the broader reform effort. […]