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A year after Hurricane Irma, watchdog addresses nursing home preparedness concerns
Despite enhanced guidance from CMS, nursing homes hit by disaster often struggle to execute emergency plans and protect residents, according to testimony from the HHS Office of Inspector General to lawmakers last week.
Hospital groups renew 340B fight with HHS lawsuit
Several hospital groups, including the American Hospital Association, refiled a lawsuit against the Department of Health and Human Services over cuts to the 340B drug discount program.
Hospitals are the ones marking up drug prices, new PhRMA report says
The drug industry continued its campaign to spread the blame for high prescription drug prices with its latest commissioned analysis and ad spots aimed at explaining the role other players in the system have in influencing prices.
Analysis: Uneven blows to dialysis industry expected in wake of California legislation
The legislation, which would cap profits on dialysis clinics affiliated with charities, has been highly contested by the industry.
Pre-existing conditions vary widely between metropolitan areas, report says
A new map from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows the wide variability of pre-existing conditions and the potential impact that healthcare protections could have on metropolitan regions around the U.S.
It’s not just Amazon: Employers are turning ‘activist’ when it comes to healthcare
While Amazon, JP Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway have grabbed the headlines in recent months to become the employers to finally disrupt healthcare, experts say their partnership is just one example in a broader groundswell of large employers taking a mor…
Employers are offering more cancer benefits. Here’s an important key to making sure employees use them
With more cancer benefits available to their employees than ever, employers need to consider how they assist their workers through the maze after a cancer diagnosis. That starts with introducing benefits vendors to each other to make sure they are prov…
OIG: Medicare overpaid hospitals by as much as $21.5M due to bundled payments
The OIG said the improper payments to hospitals for intensity-modulated radiation therapy planning services ran afoul of Medicare Part B payment rules because those planning services were already covered in bundled payments for IMRT therapies.
This is the ‘disruption’ large employers are hoping Amazon brings to healthcare
National Business Group on Health CEO and President Brian Marcotte elaborated on what large employers are looking for out of Silicon Valley as they weighed in on their expectations for healthcare benefits in 2019.
Large employers playing more ‘activist’ role in health costs, dialing back push to high-deductible plans
The latest survey from the National Business Group on Health found large employers are playing a more “activist” role in healthcare, doubling down on narrow network strategies even as fewer of them only offered consumer-directed health plans.
