The Health Care Blog
MARCH 2, 2022
Medicare Advantage (Advantage), originally conceived in 1997 during the Clinton Administration as ‘Medicare + Choice’, has progressively grown and become an established health insurance option for those 65 and older. Bush administration in 2003, the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) renamed Medicare + Choice as Medicare Advantage.
The Health Care Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2021
For example: Employer-sponsored health insurance tax preference (WWII) Hill-Burton Act (1946) Medicare/Medicaid (1965) Federal HMO Act (1973) Stark Physician Self-Referral Law (1989) DGRs (1983) & RBRVS (1992) CHIP (1997) Medicare Modernization Act (2003) Affordable Care Act (2010).
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The Health Care Blog
DECEMBER 17, 2021
When he died in 2018 at age 85, his memoriam read : “For over 50 years, Dr. Slack conducted pioneering research on the use of computers in the medical world and was one of the founders of medical informatics. On September 17, 2003, the appellate judge ordered the feeding tube removed for a second time.
The Health Care Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2022
This was the adrenaline-infused decade of blockbuster pharmaceuticals focused squarely on chronic debilitating diseases of aging. In 1992, the IOM served notice with the publication of “Emerging Infections: Microbial Threats to Health in The United States.” Slowly policy leaders were awakening to the global nature of the threat.
NC Health News
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Linda Duffy, 83, got sick of the games that she says UnitedHealthcare played with health care providers over negotiating contracts. In the fall, UnitedHealthcare and Duke Health ended a months-long standoff over contract negotiations just ahead of a Nov. 1 deadline. 1 deadline. The open enrollment period for Medicare ends Dec.
Association of Health Care Journalists
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
That drug-price negotiation provision was historic because it was the first to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices since the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act was passed in 2003, as we reported in August and in September. Fendrick also commented. Out of pocket cap helps 1.5 million This year, the $3,500 cap helped almost 1.5
The Health Care Blog
JUNE 28, 2022
Jackson Women’s Health Organization. It similarly did so in 1971’s Eisenstadt (contraception for unmarried couples) and in 2003’s Lawrence (gay sex), as well as, of course, in Roe (1973). We’re being reminded that HIPAA only goes so far , and, in our digital age, that isn’t very far. It’s not just health data, of course.
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