In this episode of KHN’s “What the Health?” Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo and Rebecca Adams of CQ Roll Call talk about health care’s emergence as a possible voting issue in the coming midterm elections. Plus, Rovner interviews KHN’s Emmarie Huetteman about July’s “Bill of the Month”: a transgender woman’s “bait-and-switch” $92,000 surgical bill.
There may be multiple drugs on the market that have already been shown to be better than the standard, and drugs may even be approved without any comparisons.
Express Scripts is being replaced by in-house pharmacy service; Boost in volume to be mitigated through new fulfillment center and pharmacy robots.
The Trump administration says its plan to overhaul the way Medicare pays doctors will save physicians time and paperwork. But critics worry the changes will hurt patients’ care and doctors’ income.
A new government watchdog report outlines vulnerabilities in Medicare’s $17 billion hospice program, pointing to inadequate services, inappropriate billing and outright fraud.
Doctors may have the right information, but may not act on it in the best way.
Despite expert guidance on tracking blood loss and high blood pressure, hospitals are lagging behind in adopting life-saving practices, report says.
Under the Wisconsin Health Care Stability Plan, the state pays for 50 percent of the cost of claims between $50,000 and $250,000.
The reason remains a mystery as statewide, average hospital margins have trended in the 4 to 6 percent range.
After a USA Today Network-Kaiser Health News investigation, Medicare announced last week that it is re-evaluating whether these procedures “pose a significant safety risk” to patients.
