Recent coverage expansions have increased the use of telehealth tools, but the technology remains relatively uncommon. A new study that looks at more than a decade of telemedicine utilization data for one commercial insurer may shed light on a more eff…
Among the latest proposed rule changes announced by CMS on Monday, officials also said the agency is considering a policy that would require pharmacy rebates to be passed on to seniors.
Section 1115 waivers are meant to be experiments that allow states to test coverage approaches that don’t meet federal program rules. However, most of their evaluations are not rigorously studied, argues a new commentary in the New England Journal of M…
A newly unsealed whistleblower lawsuit accuses Molina Health of deceiving state and federal regulators by neglecting to provide mandatory nursing home care, which violated managed care contracts with the state of Illinois.
People with diabetes are more likely to delay care if they have a high-deductible health plan, a new study says. Meanwhile, Florida’s AG added CVS and Walgreens to a long list of defendants in its suit over the opioid crisis.
Medicaid beneficiaries stand to benefit most from the latest health technology, but tech startups often pass them by in favor of seemingly more-lucrative payer partnerships. HealthTech4Medicaid wants to change that.
With a Texas judge set to make a ruling on the most-recent ACA case any day now, Democratic members of Congress are once again probing the Department of Justice’s refusal to defend the law in court. Only now, they have to deal with Acting Attorney Gene…
Fewer patients with employer-sponsored insurance are visiting their primary care doctors, but more are seeing other advanced practice providers, according to a new study.
There’s a lot of hype around the still-emerging science of genomics. A new guide released by the Northeast Business Group on Health this week offered some guidelines for employers about how to figure out what’s worth covering—and what might not be wort…
Healthcare data breaches due to theft or unauthorized disclosure have been far more common than hacking incidents, according to a new study. But cyber attackers made off with nearly 133 million patient records.
