President Obama has unveiled his $3.9 trillion fiscal year 2015 budget proposal, which allocates $77.1 billion to support the Department of Health & Human Services and $1.8 billion for health IT incentive payments.

House Republicans may tie passing a permanent repeal of the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula to delaying the Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual mandate on buying health insurance.

Current requirements for when insurers must tell physician practices that a patient’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance exchange purchased health plan is in danger of being cancelled could leave doctors unreimbursed for their services warned more than 80 state and national organizations in a letter to CMS.

U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Deb Fisher (R-Neb.) have introduced legislation that would require CMS to change its new guidelines around when a Medicare patient hospital stay is judged to be an inpatient stay.

On the heels of an indictment that accused a former Texas healthcare executive of collecting $800,000 in EHR incentive payments under false pretenses, lawmakers from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce are looking for answers from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of Inspector General (OIG) on why fraud is happening within the program.

Two ballot initiatives in California tap into public frustration about the high cost of medical care and confusion about the difference between hospital charge master prices and the actual price for care.

The mismatch between the number of patients and the number of physicians available to treat them is not just a concern of hospital and medical group leaders. The administration revealed its concern about the physician shortage in its 2015 budget.

The FDA is seeking out a contractor to provide both historical and real-time monitoring and analyses of a sample of social media websites, according to a notice issued on the Federal Business Opportunities website.