Medicare Part D may be the target of reforms, but a new analysis from consulting firm Avalere has found that beneficiaries may still face challenges when it comes to affording their medications.
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Tenet beating expectations; announces leadership changes
Tenet Healthcare, a 61-hospital health system based in Dallas, said it expects to exceed the midpoint of its latest FY22 Adjusted EBITDA outlook range included in its third quarter 2022 earnings release. The system also announced key leadership updates…
The financial pressure for hospitals is not abating in 2023
The financial issues hospitals began to face at the start of the pandemic aren’t going away anytime soon, according to managing editors of Alvarez & Marsal, who advise healthcare executives on the best ways to move forward.
The pandemic exposed the str…
Providers push CMS to enact prior authorization reforms
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and U.S. Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy recently convened an in-person roundtable discussion on reforming prior authorization in federally-sponsored…
Top Stories: California files suit against drugmakers; GH Healthcare to acquire IMPACTIS
The State of California is suing pharmaceutical manufacturers. Why are they doing it? We’ll examine the answers to that and more in this week’s Top Stories, including GE Healthcare’s agreement to but French company IMPACTIS, and SickKids’ recent ransom…
Geisinger at Home offers primary care to populations with chronic or complex conditions
Hospital at home for acute care became one of the lifeline programs for health systems during COVID-19, for providers that had the capacity and resources to take advantage of public health emergency waiver.
Hospital at home programs for primary care a…
Adverse events among inpatient admissions hit 25% in 2018
Almost 25% of inpatient admissions in 2018 experienced at least one adverse event while 7% experienced a preventable adverse event, according to new data published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The analysis, which looked at about 2,800 admiss…
Mental Health crisis straining Medicaid, according to KFF
The mental health crisis in the U.S.
Jefferson Health reorganizes in move that streamlines integration
Jefferson Health in Philadelphia is reorganizing, in a move that reportedly includes layoffs.
Jefferson Health is modifying its operating structure from five divisions to three “regions” – North, Central and East, according to a hospital spokesperson. …
CMS seeks to strengthen nursing home transparency
In a bid to improve nursing home transparency, safety and quality and accountability, the White House has announced new actions to reduce the inappropriate use of antipsychotic medications and to bring greater transparency about nursing home citations …
