The Center for Investigative Reporting’s California Watch has won a well-deserved Polk Award for their investigation in to Prime, a controversial Southern California hospital chain. Congrats to reporters Lance Williams, Christina Jewett and Stephen K. Doig for uncovering a Prime’s questionable pattern of billing Medicare for rare and unlikely ailments. Either there is some strange […]
The Obama budget proposal…
President Barack Obama released his proposed budget today. Here’s the HHS section of his budget, including on Medicaid and Medicare:http://www.hhs.gov/budget/budget-brief-fy2013.pdf Here’s the National Health Law Program (NHELP) on President Obama’s budget: Though the budget includes an increase of nearly $1 billion for the fiscal year to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to […]