Teva colluded with 20 competitors on 86 generic drugs to avoid price erosion and keep inflated prices high, lawsuit says.
Category: Health Insurance
Newsom Changes Course On Plan To Pay For Immigrant Health Coverage
California’s governor Friday scuttled his plan to siphon public health money from four counties to help provide health coverage for unauthorized immigrants ages 19 through 25.
Machine learning overtakes humans when it comes to predicting death or heart attack
Machine learning advances go above and beyond what has presently been achieved in medicine, the findings showed.
AMA files motion to testify in CVS and Aetna merger
The DOJ and CVS Health are seeking to block certain testimony they say is outside the scope of review.
How Obamacare, Medicare And ‘Medicare For All’ Muddy The Campaign Trail
A talking point used by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi refers to all three of these distinct concepts in a way that could magnify public misperceptions.
‘John Doe’ Patients Sometimes Force Hospital Staff To Play Detective
The 50-something man with a shaved head and brown eyes was unresponsive when the paramedics wheeled him into the emergency room. His pockets were empty: no wallet, no cellphone, not a single scrap of paper that might reveal his identity to the nurses and doctors working to save his life. His body lacked any distinguishing […]
Mental health patients insured by marketplace health plan less likely to receive a medical appointment
Success was highest for those with employer coverage while marketplace enrollees were statistically more likely to run into trouble.
Must-Reads Of The Week From Brianna Labuskes
Newsletter editor Brianna Labuskes wades through hundreds of health care policy stories each week, so you don’t have to.
Private health plans pay 241 percent more than Medicare, RAND report says
Study recommends employers pressure health plans and hospitals to shift to contracts based on a multiple of Medicare or other prospective case rates.
Health plan customer satisfaction challenged by new era of empowered healthcare consumers
A big challenge for health plans is addressing member expectations based on their experiences in other industries.
