When Congress votes on a longer-term Medicare physician fee-fix, Republicans may tie it to cutting back the healthcare reform law, according to a report by Investors Business Daily.

Democrats could foil GOP plans to defund the healthcare reform law next year by passing in the current lame-duck session an omnibus spending bill funding specific reforms through next year, according to a report by the Hill.

Three key Washington insiders predicted the next physician fee fix, due by the end of this month, might last just a month or two rather than the 13-month fix the AMA wants, according to a report by the Wall Street…

In the past year ending June 30, hospital spending by private insurers rose 8.2 percent, faster than the other two major healthcare sectors for physicians and drugs, according to a release by Thomson Reuters.

Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), who is in line to chair of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, said his active bill to repeal and replace the healthcare reform law would reduce premiums "across the board by up to 10…

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Under the healthcare reform law, beneficiaries in traditional Medicare will save an average of more than $3,500 in the next 10 years and those with high prescription drug costs will save as much as $12,300, according to a new HHS…

South Dakota State Rep. R. Blake Curd, MD, who also serves as interim executive director of Surgical Management Professionals in Sioux Falls, S.D., itemizes just a few of the new taxes and fees that will go into effect in the…

Ten hospitals have won the Healthcare Financial Management Association's MAP Award for High Performance in Revenue Cycle, according to a release from HFMA.

Healthcare prices in all listed sectors were unchanged in May but were up 2.9 percent from a year ago, according to a release from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.