The Trump administration’s plan to peg Part B drug prices to those paid in other countries may not come to fruition in its current form, but it’s meant more to signal to the healthcare industry—and voters—that it’s serious on this issue, experts say. …
There are sustained health benefits resulting in fewer unplanned admissions and emergency department visits among seriously ill pediatric patients who have a wish granted from the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a new study found.
More than 18,000 additional people were added to the final number of consumers impacted by the Healthcare.gov breach last month. A CMS spokesperson said the agency has reached out to all affected consumers.
In an announcement on Tuesday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the so-called institutions for mental diseases (IMD) exclusion has “unnecessarily restricted” access to critical mental healthcare for beneficiaries.
The “dysfunctional” U.S. health system may be working to improve hospital and payer bottom lines, but it’s not working as intended for patients or the doctors that care for them, the head of the American Medical Association said.
Several large payers and providers are joining a new pilot project that plans to find out just how much well blockchain can shave time off the monthslong credentialing process and improve the accuracy of provider directories.
The insurer refused to cover “the best and only treatment” for an Oklahoma woman’s stage 4 cancer. With their verdict, jurors said it’s up to Aetna to fix the broken healthcare system.
Amid CMS’ encouragement of work requirements in state Medicaid programs, MACPAC told HHS Secretary Alex Azar that Arkansas’ implementation of the policy was too crude and hasty. It urged the state to pause disenrollments and reconsider certain paramete…
Medication safety—or lack thereof—among seniors is placing an unnecessary strain on our healthcare system, especially when you consider the correlation between aging and the increasing number of medications taken annually.
Just over 370,000 people signed up for health plans on Healthcare.gov during the first week of open enrollment, which began on Nov. 1. Those numbers are lower than last year, but after accounting for timing, analysts are bullish that some insurers coul…
