What Will the King v. Burwell Decision Mean for Health Care Providers?
An upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision could have a major impact on the health care industry. In King v. Burwell, the plaintiffs believe the text of the Affordable Care Act ...
Many Issues Remain in Ethics, Compliance Under Affordable Care Act
It’s been five years now since the Affordable Care Act was officially enacted. It required Medicaid and Medicare providers to put a compliance and ethics system in place, and at ...
Officials Introduce Bill in Attempt to Repeal Affordable Care Act
As has been very well documented over the past six years, the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act is not without its detractors, especially in congress. Now, a group of ...
More than 11 Million People Have Signed Up for Affordable Care Act Insurance
On Tuesday, February 17, one day after open enrollment ended for Affordable Care Act coverage for 2015, the White House announced that more than 11 million people will be covered ...
Is the Affordable Care Act Reducing Health Care Spending?
Recently President Obama reported to the Business Roundtable that increases in health care spending are at an historic low and credited this reduction to the Affordable Care Act. While it ...
How Has the Affordable Care Act Affected Doctors?
One of the biggest questions leading up to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act this year was how the act would affect doctors. With the final quarter of the ...
Rules for Equal Health Care Coverage by Employers Still Absent in Health Care Law
Much has been made of the kind of impact that the new health care laws have had on doctors and medical care providers. However, one potential provision of those laws ...
New Jersey Affordable Care Act Statistics
A great deal of focus has been placed on statistics and trends during the six-month open enrollment period for Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange policies and Medicaid expansion. During that ...
What Doctors Should Know About the Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 is ushering in major changes to the health care sector in 2014, when most of its provisions will come into effect. There are ...
Health Care Providers and Compliance with the ADA
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines disability “as a mental or physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities.” The act provides protection for individuals with ...
Physician Quality Reporting System Under the Affordable Care Act
According to the American Medical Association, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has developed several quality initiatives that provide information on the quality of health care across a ...
Reimbursement and the Affordable Care Act
For years, getting paid by Medicare and Medicaid wasn’t very complicated. After health care providers performed a service, they billed for it and got paid. But now that “fee for ...
The Affordable Care Act’s War on Fraud
In April 2012, Kathleen Sebelius was in a triumphant mood. “We have a simple message to criminals thinking about committing Medicare fraud: don’t even try,” the Health and Human Services ...