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July 8, 2010
On Monday, June 28, the California Senate passed two bills that the state needed to run a federally-funded high risk health insurance pool, set up by the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act (ACA), and is designed to provide temporary coverage to residents who cannot obtain insurance coverage due to pre-existing conditions. This temporary program is meant to cover qualifying Californians until January, 2014, when a separate provision of the ACA will bar insurers from denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
July 7, 2010
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) creates new high risk health insurance plan in each state that covers individuals not already covered by existing high risk pools or other health insurance. States had the option to either partner with the federal government to administer PECIP or to allow the federal government to run it independently.
July 7, 2010
President Obama is using his recess appointment authority to name Dr Donald Berwick the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
July 6, 2010
US PIRG's Larry McNeely takes on health reform critics in his Huffington Post column entitled “In the Public Interest.”
July 2, 2010
The Annals of Family Medicine published the results from the National Demonstration Project (NDP), which tested patient-centered medical homes (PCMHs).
July 1, 2010
On July 1, 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched its consumer web portal, healthcare.gov, as mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).
June 30, 2010
On June 28, 2010, the federal government approved Pennsylvania's application to provide insurance to uninsured individuals with pre-existing medical conditions. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), Pennsylvania will receive $160 million in federal funds to set up and run the high-risk pool, which may cover approximately 5,600 people.
June 28, 2010
The Massachusetts Division of Insurance that Harvard Pilgrim Health Care could go ahead with an 8.6% rate increase that the state's insurance commissioner had previously rejected as unjustified.
June 28, 2010
In a 2010 report to Congress, MedPAC indicated that Medicare Advantage costs 14% more per person than traditional Medicare. America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) counters that the best available government data show that Medicare Advantage provides better coordinated, more efficient care. Using data from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the AHIP analysis suggests that seniors enrolled in Medicare Advantage programs in California and Nevada spent fewer days in the hospital, had fewer hospital readmissions, and were less likely to have potentially avoidable admissions for common conditions, such as uncontrolled diabetes and dehydration, when compared with seniors enrolled in traditional fee-for-service (FFS) Medicare.
June 25, 2010
On June 25, President Obama signed a bill that extends the Medicare physician payment relief through November 2010. The Medicare physician payment adjustment stops the 21% cut in Medicare payments effective June 1 and instead, gives doctors a 2.2% increase in payments, through November 30.
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