Under the PPACA, compliance programs that were once voluntary will become mandatory for Medicare and Medicaid providers.

No matter what ruling is handed down by the Supreme Court, the U.S. health care system is in for an extended period of trauma, while still immersed in highly partisan attacks and counter-attacks in the aftermath of the ruling.

Despite all of the predictions on how the Supreme Court will rule on the ACA’s constitutionality, little or no attention is being paid to the potential outcomes of the ruling – all of which are disturbing.

The new “contraception mandate” announced by the Obama administration earlier this year have caused an uproar over moral “conscience” objections to them.

Despite the Affordable Care Act being labelled as bad for business, there is one industry segment that has definitely profited under the ACA – health insurers.

The states’ challenge to the ACA Medicaid expansion is motivated by the increasing costs the program will impose on state budgets. The challenge will still likely fail.

The increased use of legal narcotics has resulted in more overdose deaths and increased Medicare and Medicaid fraud.

Here is my FantasySCOTUS prediction on the question of the individual mandate’s severability in the Supreme Court’s case on the health care law. Part 5 of 5.

CMS has finally issued its proposed rule to require manufacturers of drugs, devices, biologicals, or medical supplies to report payments of $10 or more made to physicians or teaching hospitals.

Calls for the recusals of Justices Thomas and Kagan have been made since legal challenges to the PPACA began. It’s very unlikely that either will recuse, though.