• HHS Announces Initiative To Move Toward More Alternative Payment Models

  January 27, 2015
  

  By the end of 2016, Medicare aims to make 30% of all payments through alternate payment models, such as accountable care organizations and bundled payments, and tie 85% of fee-for-service hospital payments to quality or value.  

• Feds Approve Ind.'s Alternative Medicaid Expansion Plan

  January 27, 2015
  

  In a major concession, federal authorities will allow Indiana to lock residents out of the program for six months if they fail to pay premiums.

• CBO Lowers Cost Estimates for ACA Coverage Provisions by More Than $100B

  January 27, 2015
  

  Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf says the lower cost projections are the result of many factors, including the overall "slowdown in the growth of health care costs" and estimated lower coverage premiums that will be subsidized by the federal government.

• Obama To Request $1.2B To Combat Antibiotic Resistance

  January 27, 2015
  

  More than $280 million of the funding would be devoted to efforts led by CDC to cut down on overprescribing and track outbreaks of antibiotic-resistant infections.

• High Court Rejects Retiree Health Benefits Case

  January 27, 2015
  

  The high court remands the case back to an appeals court, finding that "[w]hen a contract is silent as to the duration of retiree benefits, a court may not infer that the parties intended those benefits to vest for life."

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• Why 'HillaryCare' Failed and 'ObamaCare' Succeeded

  March 30, 2012
  

  Since March 30, 1992, when American Health Line first launched, there have been two major efforts to reform the country's health care system. This feature compares and contrasts health reform undertakings by former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and President Obama.

• Q&A: Community Rating & Adjusted Community Rating Under the ACA

  January 14, 2014
  

  Georgetown University Health Policy Institute research fellow and faculty member Justin Giovannelli discusses the Community Rating pricing mechanism for insurers and the new Adjusted Community Rating requirement under the Affordable Care Act.

• More to the Story: A Look at ACOs Under the ACA

  October 13, 2014
  

  Recent headlines about the Pioneer ACO program have been less than positive. However, there is more to the story. To understand ACOs under the ACA, American Health Line dug deeper.

• The Fate of Medicaid Coverage for 2M People Could Hinge on the Outcomes of the Midterm Election

  October 29, 2014
  

  Political races in several states could determine whether those states end up expanding Medicaid. Here's a look at those races and what's at stake.

• Lawmakers Criticize Obama Admin's Ebola Response, Call for Travel Ban; Obama Names 'Ebola Czar'

  October 17, 2014
  

  Experts say a travel ban on the countries most affected by the Ebola epidemic would not be effective at keeping the virus out of the U.S.

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