Conservatives in the House who had voted for the American Health Care Act (AHCA) in May are already displeased about rumored changes to the bill being considered by Senate Republicans.

Republican leaders in the Senate are aiming for a vote on their version of an Affordable Care Act replacement by the end of June, with the goal of ending the healthcare debate so it doesn’t get in the way of the rest of the party’s legislative agenda.

State legislators in Nevada have passed a bill which would allow residents to buy into the state’s Medicaid program, offering a new public health insurance option.

Finding a practical path for pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to enter value-based payment arrangements is the goal of a new policy consortium formed at the Robert J. Margolis, MD, Center for Health Policy at Duke University.

In the ICD-9 era, there were universally accepted benchmarks to measure coding professionals’ productivity. Now, more than 18 months after the ICD-10 implementation date, the challenge is to do the same for the new coding system.

CMS Administrator Seema Verma said the blame for rising premiums and fewer insurers in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges fall on the prior administration, not the current one, while offering a mixed message on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the ACA replacement that passed the House earlier in May.

A draft rule from HHS would allow all employers to seek an exemption from the Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s mandate to cover contraceptives in their insurance plans, leading to many patients having to pay out-of-pocket for birth control, which is currently available at no cost. 

New Medicare cards without Social Security numbers will be sent out starting in April 2018, according to CMS, meeting a deadline set by Congress to replace all cards by April 2019.