With less than a year before state legislation must be in place to implement a critical part of national health care reform, Tennessee and Georgia, along with 18 other states, have not made substantial progress toward meeting federal deadlines, according to reports from several nonpartisan organizations…….click here to continue reading
A key goal of the new health care reform legislation is to remedy physician shortage and maldistribution problems by growing the nation’s primary care physician workforce and placing those physicians in medically underserved regions of the country. The means to these ends include dramatic increases in funding for the National Health Service Corps, or NHSC, and new funding for teaching health ………click here to continue reading
AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., joined other national health care leaders on Monday, Dec. 6, for “Ensuring That Patient-Centered Health Care Delivery Thrives,” a panel discussion sponsored by the Mayo Clinic Health Policy Center in Bethesda, Md. “Courageous leadership from the provider community” is the most important aspect needed for true health care reform, Kirch said. “Leaders ………click here to continue reading
As part of national health care reform, health insurers will soon have to spend at least 80 to 85 percent of insurance premiums on medical care to policyholders or else offer rebates under new rules announced Monday. Starting next year, the “medical loss ratio” rule requires small insurance plans to spend 80 cents of each premium dollar on medical services and improving health care quality ………click here to continue reading
Critics and supporters of the health care reform bill that was signed into law earlier this year are both latching on to a report from economists at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services regarding the impact that the reform bill will have on health care spending. While critics of the bill have pointed to data from the report showing that national health care spending will increase at a ………click here to continue reading