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- Published On: August 28th, 2024
A decade ago, federal officials drafted a plan to discourage Medicare Advantage health insurers from overcharging the government by billions of dollars — only to abruptly back off amid an “uproar” from the industry, newly released court filings show.
- Published On: August 28th, 2024
In a move that acknowledges the gauntlet the US health system poses for people facing serious and fatal illnesses, Medicare will pay for a new class of workers to help patients manage treatments for conditions like cancer and heart failure.
- Published On: August 28th, 2024
Pfizer on Tuesday became the latest major drugmaker to sell medicine directly to consumers, launching a digital platform that's initially directed at people with migraines and respiratory ailments, including COVID-19.
- Published On: August 28th, 2024
Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris have a rare point of agreement in their otherwise bitter and divisive contest: It's up to the government to cut high U.S. drug prices.
- Published On: August 28th, 2024
Northwell Health and Nuvance Health’s 28-hospital merger logged a key milestone Monday with word that Connecticut and New York’s attorneys general have conditionally signed off on the deal.
- Published On: August 28th, 2024
Health insurer Centene will not pay any commissions to brokers and agents who help people sign up for next year’s Medicare prescription drug plans.
- Published On: August 27th, 2024
Drugmakers and providers are perennially at odds over 340B, which was enacted three decades ago to ensure hospitals serving a large number of low-income or otherwise needy patients could afford lifesaving medications.
- Published On: August 27th, 2024
Both health care spending and utilization have changed significantly since before the pandemic, the new Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker found.
- Published On: August 27th, 2024
Affordable Care Act plan enrollees had in-network access to, on average, 40% of doctors near their homes in 2021, according to a new KFF analysis.
- Published On: August 27th, 2024
An estimated 80% of physicians are now employed by hospitals, health systems, and corporations.1 Many factors have contributed to this shift away from independent practices, including rising administrative burdens, changing employment preferences, greater capital demands for health information technology, and favorable financial incentives (eg, site-differential payments).