The Food and Drug administration is considering a new payment model aimed at encouraging drugmakers to develop new antibiotics.
Category: Modern Healthcare
Healthcare groups sue to block Trump’s expansion of short-term plans
Seven healthcare industry and advocacy groups sued the Trump administration Friday to block the Trump administration’s new rule expanding…
Jefferson Health and Einstein Healthcare Network reach definitive agreement
Their union builds off an existing academic affiliation spanning two decades to create an 18-hospital system with about $5.9 billion in revenue. Their footprint would include more than 50 outpatient and urgent-care centers, leading rehabilitation…
As Hurricane Florence hits, health information exchanges fill in patient data gaps
Provider organizations can use health information exchange to pull information about patients who’ve left areas hit by the hurricane.
Commentary: Long-term acute-care hospitals vital to caring for complex patients
Long-term acute-care hospitals can provide high-quality healthcare and exceptional outcomes, according to Lou Little, president of the National Association of Long Term Hospitals. It is vitally important that their role be understood and continued.
Opioid use disorder cases triple government’s early estimates
Up to six million Americans could have opioid use disorder, nearly three times higher than government estimates, according to a new analysis.
Maryland suit seeks to protect U.S. health law from ‘sabotage’
Maryland’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration for efforts he says are intended to undercut the nation’s healthcare law.
Congress proposes $90.5 billion in HHS appropriations, including opioid funding
Congressional appropriators have approved $90.5 billion in HHS appropriations in a spending package that includes $3.8 billion in opioids funding.
Senators ask CMS to include opioid treatment in Medicare Advantage model
A bipartisan group of senators urged the CMS to expand a Medicare Advantage experiment and include substance abuse disorder treatment in the program. The move could help combat the opioid epidemic, they claim.
HHS’ work on Anthem’s emergency coverage policy leaves senators dissatisfied
HHS Secretary Alex Azar sidestepped questions from two Democratic senators about whether his agency investigated or took enforcement action against Anthem and other insurers for allegedly violating consumer rights by denying emergency care coverage.
