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News bites: HHS boosts subsidies spending, Maine holds down rate hike, and more
The Obama administration has increased its projected spending on the healthcare law's exchange subsidies by $111 billion over 10 years, Forbes reports.
Maine's top court Tuesday upheld state regulators' authority to hold down health plans' rate increases in a case with potential national implications, Kaiser Health News reports.
Hospital readmissions rates are lower in the privately run Medicare Advantage than in traditional Medicare, says a new study in the American Journal of Managed Care.
More than 830,000 Americans visited the ER in 2009 because they were suffering from preventable dental conditions, according to a new report from the Pew Center on the States.
The Drug Policy Alliance is applauding Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) for blocking bipartisan legislation criminalizing dozens of synthetic drugs, including bath salts.
