Health Care

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) paid $33.2 billion as a result of fraud or mistake....

Thirty-six states (including Hawaii) require that health care providers seeking to offer or expand their services obtain what are known as Certificates of Need (CON)....

“Hawaii’s gaps in hospital and treatment facility capacity lead to overcrowding, long wait times and an inability to respond to disasters,” said Dr. Ishida....

Approximately 300,000 beneficiaries are currently receiving services through the QUEST Integration program. ‘Ohana is one of five health plans selected to receive an award....

Of Hawaii’s 30,000 small businesses, 296 registered for insurance through the Hawaii Health Connector by the Dec. 25 deadline....

...the HIT would increase health insurance premiums by more than $2,800 per person and $6,800 per family over a decade....

The Population Institute today released its second annual report card ....

...a family of four could pay a $962 premium under ObamaCare but only a $160 premium under the Walmart plan....

After weeks of bureaucratic run-around McDermott finally received a copy of the requested materials....

• DATE: Monday, January 13, 2014
• TIME: 2:00 pm
• PLACE: Conference Room 329, State Capitol

Obamacare creates a new entitlement program while expanding another.....

nearly three-quarters (74%) of uninsured nonelderly people in the state are eligible for financial assistance to gain coverage through either Medicaid or the Marketplaces....

Meanwhile, Hawaii’s Democrat lawmakers are also criticizing the exchange....

A group of 10,000 low-income Oregon residents who recently obtained Medicaid coverage visited ERs 40 percent more often....

...the benefits in her new plan are better than her previous plan and cost about $30 a month less....

Below is the response of the HRP Executive Director, Kayla Berube, to the HI Health Connector's request for GOP help in boosting enrollment numbers....

The Little Sisters take care of more than 13,000 poor men and women around the world who are elderly....

Alliance Defending Freedom and its allied attorneys are currently winning their cases by a wide margin, with court orders going 15-1 against the mandate....

This is only the beginning—watch how two of these taxes get worse in the years to come....

...premium payers will get a new round of cancellation letters starting this September, just in time for the elections....

• DATE: Tuesday, January 07, 2014
• TIME: 10 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 229, State Capitol

...who stands to benefit most and least as a result of its implementation....

While expenses have been slowly increasing for health care providers, legislated payment updates have remained flat since 2011....

Vermont is trying to get a refund of hundreds of thousands of dollars and has refused to pay $5.1 million of its contract with the company....

For those that made a good-faith effort to complete an application but are unsure of the application status, we encourage those consumers to call our Customer Support Center....

$14,321,000 – Information/Electronic Medical Record (EMR) System, statewide....

Beginning Jan. 1, regulators expect it will be literally impossible for an individual to buy a new policy in the Northern Mariana Islands, and difficult in other territories....

In the past, paramedics would have taken the man to the closest hospital emergency room.... But instead, under a pilot program, paramedics ushered him through the doors of Holly Hill Hospital, a commercial psychiatric facility....

...the Governor has until Feb. 9, 2014, to name a permanent director....

Hawai'i Health Connector is extending its enrollment deadline from December 23 to tomorrow, December 24, in line with a federal announcement earlier today....

Medicaid wasn’t working for Moise....

the nation's ability to prevent and control infectious disease outbreaks is hampered by outdated systems and limited resources....

...the exchange will be expected to fund its $10 million to $14 million in annual operations through fees on local insurance companies....

Most of the people applying for Obamacare are being funneled into Medicaid....

ObamaCare is only going to get worse....

As Obama so ironically threatened in 2009, “If you misrepresent what’s in this plan, we will call you out.” To that end, here are 10 promises of Obamacare that have already been broken....

U.S. government that it is taking steps to improve the collection of health data for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders....

"Turning down 30-40% of requested calls puts our residents at a greater risk of death or prolonged injury and is unacceptable,” said Councilmember Kymberly Marcos Pine

CMS recently announced that it will extend the federal programs to encourage physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health records ....

The 217-page manual reads like a primer for Amway....

Two of the problems Obamacare promised to solve were getting coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and helping the uninsured get coverage....

...the “Number of Individuals Who Have Selected a Marketplace Plan” is “pre-effectuated” -- including individuals who have not made any premium payments....

...dedicated hospital observation units could lead to $950 million in national cost savings, according to a new study in Health Affairs....

...nonessential management employees are being furloughed three days per month for the next six months as part of a cost-cutting drive....

• DATE: Tuesday, December 17, 2013
• TIME: 10 a.m.
• PLACE: Conference Room 229, State Capitol

...amid the rush to enroll as many people as possible by the Dec. 23 deadline, there's a huge caveat that isn't getting much public attention: For coverage to take effect on Jan. 1, enrollees must pay their first month's premium....

To meet the promise of free preventive care nationwide, every family doctor in America would have to work full-time delivering it, leaving no time for all the other things they need to do....