House Ways And Means Expected To Drop Benchmark Payments That Hospitals Hate In New Surprise Billing Plan
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Massachusetts Says It’s Worth It To Pay For Uber-Pricey Drugs … But Only If They Work
Massachusetts is trying an experiment where the state will pay for one of the most expensive drugs on the market,
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Read MoreFeds Slow Down But Don’t Stop Georgia’s Contentious Effort To Ditch ACA Marketplace
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Read MorePatients Stuck With Bills After Insurers Don’t Pay As Promised
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Read MoreKHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Fact-Checking President Trump’s State Of The Union
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Read MoreMerck To Create Company To Sell Its Older, Slower Growth Products Focusing Heavily On Women’s Health Drugs
Merck’s rivals Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline have made similar moves. In addition to women’s health medicines and older, off-patent brands, the
Read MorePete Buttigieg May Have Said He Wants Pharma To ‘Thrive’ But That Doesn’t Mean They Would Like His Drug Pricing Plan
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Read MorePatients Caught In Crossfire Between Giant Hospital Chain, Large Insurer
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Trump On ‘Medicare for All’ And The Costs Of Extending Health Care To Undocumented Immigrants
“Over 130 legislators in this chamber have endorsed legislation that would bankrupt our nation by providing free taxpayer-funded health care
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Read MoreMark Bertolini, A Key Player In Aetna Deal, Forced Out By CVS Board Exposing Lingering Tensions Over Merger
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Read MorePromising HIV Vaccine Comes Up Short As Study Finds It Was No More Effective Than Placebo
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Read MoreAfter Home Health Companies Abandon Merger Deal, FTC Drops Investigation Into Consolidation
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Read MoreCMS Considers Tightening Rules To Ensure Ineligible People Aren’t Receiving ACA Subsidies
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Read MoreCongressional Democrats Have Limited Options Of Blocking Administration’s Block Grant Medicaid Changes
Any tough measures aimed at halting the Trump administration’s attempt to shift Medicaid funding into a block-grant system could imperil
Read More‘They Literally Take Food Off Their Table’: Critics Question The Data Behind Agriculture Department’s Recent Rules
Critics call into question the Department of Agriculture’s decision-making process that has huge implications for struggling farmers, food stamp recipients
Read MoreHospitals, Insurers Swear They Support Price Transparency … Just Not Quite That Much Price Transparency
Hospitals and insurers have been up in arms ever since the administration announced a rule that would force them to
Read More‘I Am A Danger To The Public’: Pharmacists At Big Retail Chains Raise Red Flags About Chaotic Workplaces
Pharmacists at companies like CVS, Rite Aid and Walgreens described in interviews with The New York Times understaffed and chaotic
Read MoreDrug Prices Will See More Moderate Increase But Specialty Million-Dollar Therapies Still Driving Costs Higher
“Hospitals and patients are still getting killed by new million-dollar drugs that won’t see any competition for decades,” said Dan
Read MoreA Guide To Following The Health Debate In The 2020 Elections
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Read MoreTrump’s Latest Health Care Challenge: Gaining Voters’ Trust
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Read MoreAppendicitis Is Painful — Add A $41,212 Surgery Bill To The Misery
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Read MoreListen: Colorado Ski Area Opts For Novel Effort To Stop Avalanche Of Health Costs
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Read MoreHouse Majority Leader Presses Lawmakers To Move Ahead With Solution For Surprise Medical Bills
So far the legislation has hit road bumps despite the bipartisan interest in addressing an issue that voters care about.
Read MoreCMS To Invite States To Apply For Waivers To Transform Medicaid Programs Into Block Grant Model
The letters to state officials are expected to go out on Thursday. Proponents and critics alike expect any changes to
Read MoreConceived Through ‘Fertility Fraud,’ She Now Needs Fertility Treatment
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Read MoreVoters Still Consistently Report Concern Over Health Care Costs As Primary Season Ramps Up Into Full Gear
Modern Healthcare rounds up recent polls where voters were asked about health care concerns. One poll found that a whopping
Read MoreLatest Patient Charity Settlement With Justice Department Becomes Fourth Such Deal In As Many Months
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Read MoreCall For FDA To Withdraw Preterm Birth Drug Divides Doctors and Insurers
Doctors fear that the only drug approved to prevent preterm birth, the nation’s leading cause of infant mortality and disability,
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