The independent source for health policy research, polling, and news.
1,201 - 1,220 of 1,586 Results
A growing number of health experts are warning of potential collateral damage if the Supreme Court strikes down the entire 2010 Affordable Care Act: potential chaos in the Medicare program.
KHN's Jordan Rau and Mary Agnes Carey discuss Medicare's transition to compensating doctors based on the quality of the medical care they provide.
A little-noticed provision of the health law calls for increasing reimbursements to doctors who provide quality care at lower cost and reducing payments to physicians who run up costs without better results.
President Barack Obama today attacked the Republican 2013 budget as a "Trojan horse" and "thinly veiled social Darwinism" -- and defended the constitutionality of the health law. Watch excerpts from the speech.
Competing ideas and election-year politics will thwart major legislation in 2012, but look for budgetary action at year's end.
The coverage change could help focus doctors and patients on mental health issues, which often go undiagnosed in the elderly, especially those who are dealing with multiple chronic physical problems.
The New England Journal of Medicine reports that a test project
Kaiser Health News compares data on the progress of the health law's implementation to the original projections of the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and the Obama administration.
A panel established by the health law to rein in Medicare spending is the target of a House GOP effort to begin dismantling the 2010 health law.
KHN's Marilyn Werber Serafini and Mary Agnes Carey discuss the budget Wis. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan released today and how it differs from the proposal he released last year.
KHN's Marilyn Werber Serafini details how the Wisconsin Republican's proposal places greater limits on federal spending for Medicare than last year's blueprint.
In a news conference Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Reps. Paul Ryan and Tom Price said that the proposed sweeping changes would protect the program for seniors and the disabled.
Against a backdrop of proposals to overhaul the popular social insurance program and a presidential campaign likely to address entitlement spending, the seniors group is mobilizing.
The revolving door at the top of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services raises questions about the key agency implementing the health law.
An eBay merchant who sells funny barbecue aprons out of his living room is better equipped to send information electronically than many physicians. Farzad Mostashari is the guy trying to change that.
An interactive chart shows where eight of the current and former candidates - Gingrich, Paul, Romney, Santorum, Bachmann, Cain, Huntsman and Perry - stand on major health care issues.
New consumer-friendly statements urge seniors to report suspicious charges and make it easier to appeal denials of coverage.
KHN's Mary Agnes Carey talks with Jackie Judd about the latest movement in House Republican efforts to repeal a key part of the health reform law -- the Independent Payment Advisory Board. One House committee passed a repeal of IPAB Tuesday while another held a hearing on it. The full House is expected to vote on a repeal of IPAB as early as the end of March.
Republicans may still take heat over Medicare proposals, survey also finds.
Study finds that's mostly because the government pays far lower rates for hospital care
漏 2026 KFF