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The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation today announced a new payment model for Medicare Part D and Medicare Advantage drug plans beginning January 2020, which will test new incentives for plans, patients and providers to choose drugs with lower list prices. Plans participating in the…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today approved a Section 1115 waiver for Arizona that will require certain adults aged 19 to 49 to work or participate in training or community service an average 80 hours per month to continue qualifying for Medicaid.
The International Hospital Federation is accepting abstracts through Feb. 15 for its 2019 World Hospital Congress.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today issued proposed rules for plans sold on the Health Insurance Marketplaces for the 2020 benefit year.
To encourage drug companies to seek approval for over-the-counter versions of naloxone, an emergency treatment for opioid overdose, the Food and Drug Administration today released model consumer-friendly labels for prospective OTC versions of the drug.
Patients in the most rural counties had an 87 percent greater chance of receiving an opioid prescription from their primary care provider between January 2014 and March 2017 than patients in large metropolitan areas.
An estimated 23 percent of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions filled by privately insured children and non-elderly adults in the United States in 2016 were inappropriate.
Commenting today on the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s draft recommendations for 2020, AHA said it supports the recommendation to provide current law market-basket updates for the hospital inpatient and outpatient prospective payment systems.
The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday heard oral arguments in an appeal of a D.C. Circuit Court decision that the Department of Health and Human Services violated the Medicare Act when it changed Medicare’s reimbursement adjustment formula for disproportionate share hospitals without providing notice…
The U.S. health care system continues to make progress automating business transactions, but could save an additional $9.8 billion annually if providers and health plans fully adopted certain electronic transactions.