The federal government is the largest employer in the United States, and the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program is the largest employ...

When the Affordable Care Act was just beginning to be implemented in 2013, the HHS secretary released a report stating the goal of Affordable Healt...

Rising health care cost is a major concern for health policy makers since the 1960s. Statistical analysis of medical cost data is becoming increasi...

The health care reform debate in the United States raises many complex issues including those of coverage, accessibility, cost, accountability, and...

Proposals have been put forward to replace the current paper Medicare cards, which display beneficiaries’ Social Security numbers, with electronica...

As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), as amended, Congress enacted the "individual mandate", which requires certain indi...

Since 1 January 2014, most individuals have had to maintain health insurance coverage or pay a penalty for noncompliance implemented through the In...

The number of uninsured individuals and the rising cost of health insurance have been long-standing issues. The Patient Protection and Affordable C...

Since 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has required most individuals to maintain health insurance coverage or potential...

The Medicaid program marked its 50th anniversary on July 30, 2015. The joint federal-state program has grown to be one of the largest sources of he...

Medicaid is a significant expenditure for the federal government and the states, with total federal outlays of $310 billion in fiscal year 2014. Th...

The importance of managed care in Medicaid -- under which states contract with managed care organisations (MCOs) to provide a specific set of servi...

Medicaid is a federal-state entitlement program that pays for health care and related services on behalf of certain low-income individuals. Prescri...

Volatility in prices and availability of medical malpractice liability insurance and allegations that insurance companies may have colluded in rais...

This book presents background and an examination of the issues before Congress as it relates to medical malpractice with a focus on the economic is...

Medicare is the nation’s health insurance program for persons aged 65 and older and certain disabled persons. Medicare consists of four distinct pa...

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 established a voluntary, outpatient prescription drug benefit under Medi...

Through close examination of legal, historical, and medical sources, this volume sheds light on the evolution of U.S. law as it bears on bio-ethica...

Historically, American law did not require hospitals to admit patients, despite sporadic legislative attempts to change this practice. In 1986, how...

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) administers and enforces the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) as it pertains to ensuring the availability ...

Most Americans are covered by private health insurance, which they either obtain through employment or purchase individually. Insurance premiums --...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as of 2014, changed how insurers determine health insurance premiums and how consumers shop...

The purpose of this book is to provide practical approaches to designing public reports that make health care performance information clear, meanin...

In the last decade, shortages of prescription drugs containing controlled substances, such as narcotics and stimulants, have increased nationwide, ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains several provisions to encourage employer-sponsored health coverage, particularly among smal...

Chapter 1 reports on the U.S. drug supply and the complex way it is interwoven with multiple stakeholders involved in each step of the process. Whe...

This book provides a review on the supply and demand projections and federal planning efforts in the U.S. health care workforce, which includes pri...