O-Care '15: CMS spends $60M on navigators
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said Tuesday it will spend at least $60 million on ObamaCare navigators for the 2015 enrollment period.Navigators are counselors who help consumers...
View ArticleGAO calls for more oversight of managed care
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said Wednesday that state and federal Medicaid auditors need to increase their oversight of managed care organizations.In a new report, the GAO says Medicaid...
View ArticleObamaCare office may have lost emails sought in Oversight probe
The federal agency in charge of ObamaCare acknowledged this week that its chief may have deleted some emails that are now being sought by congressional Republicans. A records management official with...
View ArticleGOP says Obama health official instructed staff to delete email
House Republicans on Friday accused a top Obama administration health official of telling staff to delete an email related to the healthcare law’s rollout last fall.In a letter to Centers for Medicare...
View ArticleDems urge CMS to ensure accurate nursing home staffing data
Democratic Reps. Jan Schakowsky (Ill.) and Doris Matsui (Calif.) asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) why a March 2012 deadline to implement a provision of the Affordable Care Act...
View ArticleBaldwin asks administration for special Wisconsin insurance enrollment
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.) asked the Obama administration to grant a special enrollment period for Wisconsin citizens to enroll in health insurance offered by the federal marketplace.In a letter...
View ArticleIssa alleges ObamaCare cover-up
The leader of the House Oversight Committee on Thursday accused the Obama administration of scheming to cover up failures with its healthcare website, which he said put millions of people’s health data...
View ArticleNo increase in Medicare Part B premiums
Premiums and deductibles in Medicare Part B will remain the same next year, saving seniors more than $125 compared with projections, federal health officials said Thursday. The Centers for Medicare...
View ArticleIssa calls Gruber to testify before Oversight
The House Oversight Committee is asking embattled former ObamaCare consultant Jonathan Gruber to testify at a hearing next month on the “transparency failures” of the administration’s healthcare law....
View Article'Stupidity' consultant agrees to testify
Jonathan Gruber, the former ObamaCare adviser in hot water for his comments about the “stupidity of the American voter,” has agreed to testify at a House panel next month, setting up a healthcare...
View ArticleOVERNIGHT HEALTH: Health spending grows at slowest rate on record
U.S. healthcare spending grew 3.6 percent in 2013, the slowest rate on record since 1960, federal health officials reported Wednesday. The figures represent good news for the Obama administration in...
View ArticleHHS asks GOP: Keep us away from Gruber
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is asking lawmakers not to seat ObamaCare consultant Jonathan Gruber next to Medicare's top official when the two testify on Capitol Hill next week....
View ArticleOVERNIGHT HEALTH: GOP ready for Gruber
The Jonathan Gruber show is coming to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, with Republicans set to grill the former ObamaCare adviser for his controversial remarks about the "stupidity" of voters.The hearing is...
View ArticleCMS chief: We didn't try to 'deceive' the public
The health official under fire for misreporting ObamaCare enrollment numbers insisted Tuesday that the error was “inadvertent” and not a scheme to inflate the figures. “I do not believe anyone tried to...
View ArticleOVERNIGHT HEALTH: GOP to Gruber: ‘What are you hiding?’
As Jonathan Gruber entered a Capitol Hill hearing room on Tuesday, Republicans were hoping that the famously blunt consultant would give them new fuel to attack the transparency of ObamaCare. He...
View ArticleAetna departure a major blow for insurers group
Aetna, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, announced Tuesday that it is leaving the insurer trade group America’s Health Insurance Plans, dealing a blow to a powerful Washington lobbying...
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