Healthcare costs, insurance and payment.
Americans, on average, pay two to three times as much as people in other countries for the same prescription drug. President Biden’s Executive Order 14087, directed the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human ...
Study shows that when health care providers spend more time with home health care patients, risk of hospital readmission decreases By Callie Rainosek. The United States spends roughly $3.6 trillion on health care each ...
Seema Verma, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), recently released an article highlighting the impact that telehealth, which has been significantly expanded as a result of the COVID-19 ...
Shortages Emerging in Surgery, Psychiatry, Geriatrics, Infectious Disease, and Other Specialties. In a continuing trend, hospitals, medical groups, and other healthcare facilities are seeking more medical specialists ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently published its final rule regarding payment policies under the Physician Fee Schedule (“PFS”). CMS’ final rule approves and pays under the PFS for a ...
How do physicians feel about a new a new federal policy that allows states to require applicants to work or seek a job in order to obtain Medicaid benefits? Merritt Hawkins recently sent a one-question survey to ...
The cost of treating people infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) with newly approved therapies will likely place a tremendous economic burden on the country’s health care system. The prediction comes from a ...
An analysis of more than 100 health insurance plans across Texas offered under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) shows that plans can differ significantly in premium cost and the number of hospitals included in insurance ...
