Over the past five months, the Trump administration has proposed a series of reforms to lower the cost of prescription drugs.
Category: Health Insurance
Why requiring nurses to have a bachelor’s degree can improve patient safety
Nurses who earned a BA reported being significantly better prepared than nurses with associate degrees in several areas of clinical care.
Gun Store Owner Marshals Voters To Expand Medicaid In Idaho
Idaho is one of four conservative states where voters next month will determine whether to buck the GOP’s resistance to the Affordable Care Act and implement or renew its expansion of Medicaid to adults.
Trump Administration proposes new Medicare drug payment model to reduce costs
The International Pricing Index model would reset Medicare payments for physician-administered drugs.
Aetna CVS merger faces one last hurdle in New York
Superintendent Maria Vullo wants guardrails to ensure promised synergies result in cost savings for consumers.
American Medical Association upgrades mapping tool to help providers identify underserved areas
The mapping tool identifies health professional shortage areas, hospital locations, workforce trends, wellness barriers.
Podcast: KHN’s ‘What The Health?’ Trump, GOP Fight Back On Health Care
In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Alice Ollstein of Politico discuss a flurry of proposals from the Trump administration on prices Medicare pays for drugs and the Affordable Care Act.
Physicians adverse to the financial risk of payment models that penalize for cost overruns
Many physician practices lack the experience with data management and analysis needed to perform well in alternative payment methods, study says.
BayCare Health puts self-service biometric kiosks in Publix grocery stores
Consumers can use the TechDecks to measure blood pressure, weight and other metrics, then send those to doctors at BayCare.
Technology key to curbing rate of claims denials for hospitals, health systems
Some providers see nine percent of their claims denied, and with each costing as much as $118, better processes can help realize cost savings.
