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Nurse practitioners could ease the growing primary care physician shortage, but state scope-of-practice laws affect their practice opportunities.

Community benefit activities, ACA compliance are the IRS' priorities

The RAC program adds complexity to the observation status decision and may even lead to a false claims investigation from the Office of Inspector General.

Troubled hospitals can be stabilized with immediate, transparent actions

Nonprofit governance continues to embrace accountability measures and policies while also struggling with racial/ethnic and gender diversity.

More than 496,000 health care and other jobs will be lost in 2013 as a result of the 2 percent, or $10.7 billion, cut in Medicare spending mandated by the Budget Control Act of 2011

The court found coercive the ACA's Medicaid expansion, which required states to expand their programs for individuals earning up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level or risk losing all their Medicaid funding.

Beyond insurance: Do you know what else is in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act?