Supreme Court individual mandate

ACA presents golden opportunity for wireless, mobile health

By Neil Versel 04:10 am July 5, 2012

The Supreme Court's decision to uphold most of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act certainly was stunning. Who really expected Chief Justice John Roberts to side with the liberal wing of the court? How many people thought that the reasoning would be that the individual mandate was a legal exercise of Congress' power to levy taxes? Similarly, the decision was polarizing. Plenty of...

Democrats expect key CMS initiative to survive Supreme Court

By Brian Dolan 03:21 am May 31, 2012

We first encountered plans for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) in early 2010, when many of the center's goals were laid out in a 25 page (mostly mobile) health-focused chapter of the FCC's National Broadband Plan. With the passing of the Affordable Care Act, Congress allocated $10 billion through the year 2019 to fund the creation of what was then called the CMS Innovation...