New Medi-Cal benefit will address longstanding reimbursement inconsistency for community health workers, expert says
Soraya Marashi | Sep 16, 2022 | California
Washington health experts discuss efforts to regulate health care cost growth
Shane Ersland | Sep 13, 2022 | Washington
Colorado health legislation moving forward this session
Michael Goldberg | Feb 4, 2020 | Colorado
An update on health policy bills in Hawaii
Emily Boerger | May 7, 2018 | Hawaii
Congress Approves One-Year Delay in Physician Pay Cut and ICD-10
Amy Snow Landa | Apr 2, 2014
The U.S. Senate on Monday evening approved a Medicare physician payment bill that would prevent a 24-percent cut in payments for one year. The Protecting Access to Medicare Act passed the Senate on a bipartisan 64-35 vote after passing the House last week on a voice vote. It was the seventeenth time in
OR: Legislative Task Force Hears Mental Health Providers' Reimbursement Concerns
Amanda Waldroupe | Mar 26, 2014 | Oregon
The Oregon Legislature’s Joint Interim Task Force on Primary and Mental Health Care Reimbursement heard from representatives of psychiatric and nurse practitioner organizations last Friday that the current methodology for reimbursing providers presents numerous barriers to providing more efficient, coordinated mental health care. The Legislature in 2013 passed House Bill
NYT Editorial: The Murky World of Hospital Prices
Erin Thurston | May 17, 2013
By The Editorial Board May 16, 2013 Last week, the federal government made public a vast trove of information on the list prices charged by hospitals for a large array of procedures commonly performed on hospitalized patients. It was a good start toward providing greater transparency in hospital billing, which