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Economic Slowdown Responsible for Delayed Decrease in Health Care Spending

What causes health care spending to go up and down?  A recent study by the Kaiser Family Foundation has found that the economy has a dramatic effect on the changes in health care spending.  Health care...

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Rising Demand for Paid Long-Term Care Services Seen in the Near Future

By 2050, 20 percent  of the population will be 65 or older.  That will be an increase of 8 percent from the current amount of 12 percent of the population being that age or older. This rapid increase...

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Obama Administration Delays Health Insurance Mandate for Large Employers...

The Obama Administration announced on July 2 that it was delaying until 2015 implementation of the requirement that employers with 50 or more employees provide qualified health insurance for their...

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Federal Health Spending Will Continue Putting Pressure on Total Federal Debt

While the federal budget deficit has decreased much faster than projected in previous years, total federal debt remains at historically high levels and the costs of health care will continue to add to...

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Physician Fee Schedule Formula Change Would Cost $176 Billion Over 10 Years

Legislation under consideration in the House of Representatives to change the current formula for how physicians are reimbursed by Medicare would increase federal direct spending by $176 billion from...

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The Medicare and Medicaid Guide—Highlights of All Explanations (White Paper)

Medicare is the single largest purchaser of health care in the United States, accounting for 23 percent ($522 billion) of the $2.3 trillion spent on health care in 2011, according to the Medicare...

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Top Health Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Posts of 2013

We wish everyone a happy end to 2013. Health Wolters Kluwer Law & Business will resume our regular posting schedule on Thursday, January 2nd. In the meantime, these were our top posts for 2013: HHS...

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Former CMS Administrators Call for a 5 Year Suspension of SGR Updates

Two former CMS Administrators voiced support for a 5 year suspension of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula used to update the payment rate for physicians who provide services to Medicare...

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ACA’s Changes to Medicaid and Medicare Could Drastically Alter the Practice...

By: Neil Issar, Vanderbilt Law School- The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) incentivizes adoption of a model in which healthcare providers reduce costs by shifting to value-based...

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Medicare, Medicaid, and ACA Contribute to $195B Deficit

Due to both outlays and revenues that increased by 8 percent in January of 2015 as compared to those outlays and revenues at the same time in 2014, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the...

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Kusserow on Compliance: GAO enrolled fictitious applicants through the...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent “congressional watchdog” agency that investigates federal government expenditures. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)...

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CBO predicts 2M fewer full-time workers in 2025 due to ACA

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) (P.L. 111-148) will make the labor supply, measured as the total compensation paid to workers, 0.86 percent smaller in 2025 than it would have been without that law,...

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Will the ACA be repealed under President-elect Trump?

On January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump (R) will be sworn in as the president of the United States; the Republican Party will retain its majority in both the House of Representatives and Senate, but will...

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Federal and beneficiary spending on Medicare will skyrocket if ACA repealed

Repeal of the Affordable Care Act, as promised by the incoming Congressional leadership and President-elect Donald Trump’s (R) Administration, would not only increase Medicare spending but also lead to...

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Eliminating individual mandate lowers cost of CHIP funding

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) lowered its estimate of the deficit impact of legislation that would fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for five years, finding that CHIP had...

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CBO, JCT share methods for analyzing legislative proposals impacting health...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) revealed in a recent report how they jointly analyze proposed legislation that would impact health insurance coverage for...

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CBO projects federal subsidies for health insurance coverage

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation has released a report which updates the CBO’s baseline 2018 to 2028 projections of the number of...

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Kusserow on Compliance: Inova Health System another victim of ransomware attack

Inova Health System is the latest of a dozen health systems affected by a ransomware attack at a third-party software vendor. The Virginia-based health system issued a notice on September 9, 2002...

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