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President Donald Trump's executive orders have begun to disrupt patient care in the United States, as some providers cannot access essential federal funding, according to interviews with a dozen ...
In the past two-and-a-half decades alone, the market has experienced some of the worst slumps in history -- including the record-breaking bear market following the dot-com bubble burst, the Great ...
Managed care plans and strategies proliferated and quickly became nearly ubiquitous in the U.S. However, this rapid growth led to a consumer backlash. Because many managed care health plans are provided by for-profit companies, their cost-control efforts are driven by the need to generate profits and not providing health care. [5]
The Justice Department said the 5th Circuit's ruling jeopardizes the availability of critical preventive care including cancer screenings enjoyed by millions of Americans.
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), there have been numerous actions in federal courts to challenge the constitutionality of the legislation. [1] [2] They include challenges by states against the ACA, reactions from legal experts with respect to its constitutionality, several federal court rulings on the ACA's constitutionality, the final ruling on the constitutionality of the ...
Private health exchanges predate the Affordable Care Act. One example of an early health care exchange is International Medical Exchange (IMX), a company venture financed in Louisville, Kentucky, by Standard Telephones and Cables, a large British technology company (now Nortel), to develop the exchange concept in the U.S. using on-line ...
In 2010, Gentiva Home Health paid $1 billion to purchase Odyssey Healthcare. It was the largest hospice acquisition in U.S. history, according to the company . The reason for this expansion partially reflects a decades-long shift in attitude among terminally ill patients, who increasingly prefer to spend their final weeks at home instead of in ...
Lipschutz says many home health care providers now “are risk-averse; they don’t think things are going to get paid by Medicare” so they refuse to order the care. “It’s incredibly ...