cmonfils | January 11, 2012
Though it was not unexpected, state officials don’t yet have a complete plan to deal with a high court ruling that roughly 30,000 legal immigrants were unfairly excluded from a state health care program.
“Over the time of this deliberation we’ve understood that there might be a need to adjust the way that things go,” Health and Human Services Secretary JudyAnn Bigby said Friday.
cmonfils | January 11, 2012
A major medical group issued ethical guidelines on Monday that take the provocative position of urging doctors to consider cost-effectiveness when deciding how to treat their patients.
The American College of Physicians, the second-largest U.S. doctors’ group after the American Medical Association, included the recommendation in the latest version of its ethics manual, which provides guidance for some 132,000 internists nationwide.
cmonfils | January 11, 2012
No, it’s not quite going down. But health care spending in 2010 rose at the second-slowest rate in the last half-century.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reports that total health spending in the U.S. increased by 3.9 percent in 2010, just a notch above the slowest rate since the government started keeping track — 3.8 percent in 2009.
cmonfils | January 11, 2012
| January 10, 2012 – The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a new report on risk retention groups (RRGs) entitled Clarifications Could Facilitate States’ Implementation of the Liability Risk Retention Act.
Congress requested that this report be prepared in order to better determine whether the Liability Risk Retention Act (LRRA) should be amended. SIIA along with other industry groups currently support the passage of the Risk Retention Modernization Act (HR 2126). (more…) |
