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In September 2018, the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) sent hospitals invoices covering the last four fee-for-service (FFS) cycles of the 2017-19 Hospital Fee Program. The third invoice, Cycle 9 FFS, covers Jan. 1 – March 31, 2019, and is due April 3. Hospitals will receive the corresponding FFS payment on April 22.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has postponed billing edits for outpatient providers with multiple service locations — scheduled to start in April — for three additional months.
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Within the ever-widening array of Democratic contenders for the Presidency, the “Medicare-for-all” debate continues to simmer. It was only six weeks ago that Kamala Harris’s vocal support drew fire from not one, but two billionaire political rivals. Michael Bloomberg, looking for support in New Hampshire declared, “I think we could never afford that. We are talking about trillions of dollars… [that] would bankrupt us for a long time.” Fellow billionaire candidate Howard Schultz added, “That’s not correct. That’s not American.”
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It’s a sad commentary that alarms go up among Washington elites when the Trump administration defends the Constitution and holds Congress to its word. That is, after all, what the Department of Justice did this week by agreeing with a federal court that all of Obamacare is unconstitutional.
Pundits declare that this decision will have disastrous political consequences for Republicans. The Constitution’s approval rating is far higher than Congress’, so I think reports of our demise are greatly exaggerated.
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What’s the replacement plan for Obamacare? Take a look at today’s cartoon from Mike Thompson for his view. Don’t stop there. Look through the rest for more laughs.
In fact, on this page, you’ll find a bevy of cartoon galleries produced by artists throughout the USA TODAY Network and from Cagle Cartoons — a site that archives some 200,000 cartoons from artists worldwide. We update our galleries regularly. And we’ll try to swap them onto this page so you can enjoy the most recent additions to our collection as they come. Check back often!
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Ever since the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, Republicans have been hellbent on either repealing the measure in Congress or striking it down in courts.
Their latest effort to strip millions of Americans of their health coverage, which the Trump administration joined this week with a legal brief calling for the entire ACA’s demise, combines the two approaches.
It reasons that if Congress can repeal a tiny portion of the law, which it did by ending penalties for those without insurance, sympathetic judges would then repeal the rest, which has happened at the district court level in Texas. Call it what it is: a tag-team assault on the ACA by conservatives in Congress and in robes.
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Only 24 hours after what he sees as a vindication of his presidency by Attorney General William Barr, President Donald Trump took the most radical, aggressive and harmful move of his presidency when he filed papers to ask the courts to support the complete elimination of the Affordable Care Act.
And in doing so, Trump just framed the stakes of the 2020 election.
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The California Building Standards Commission is now accepting comments on proposed rules that would align current building codes with a law enacted last year, Assembly Bill (AB) 2190 (Chapter 673, Statutes of 2018).
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Today, CHA member hospitals participated in a lobby action day in Sacramento to encourage legislators to ask the administration to reset the calculation of Proposition 55 funds. During the event, 20 hospital leaders met with key legislators and their staff, urging them to support the voters’ intent and direct crucial health care funding to Medi-Cal.
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Yesterday, CHA launched a new month-long social media campaign — directed at lawmakers in California — related to the ongoing issue of health care affordability. The launch included a special video message from Carmela Coyle, CHA President & CEO, which highlights the many factors that contribute to rising health care costs.