Month: July 2022
Senate Democrats want to boost taxes on some high earners and use the money to extend the solvency of Medicare, the latest step in the party’s election-year attempt to craft a scaled-back version of the economic package that collapsed last year
As a result, employers must examine their employee benefits package. Employers and insurance carriers have an opportunity to modernize employee benefits to combat the Great Resignation, the Great Realignment, or Turnover Tsunami as the phenomenon is described.
The spring coronavirus swell that’s turning into the summer coronavirus surge is starting to result in more hospital admissions, although the amount of serious illness is still far less than before widespread vaccination.
The spring coronavirus swell that’s turning into the summer coronavirus surge is starting to result in more hospital admissions, although the amount of serious illness is still far less than before widespread vaccination.
Watch out, pharma—the federal government has its eye on add-on drug patents that can lead to higher prices. In a new effort, the FDA and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) are teaming up to take a close look at patenting procedures. Wednesday, the PTO said it plans to crack down on patenting of “incremental, obvious ...
Hospitals and community and rural health clinics that serve low-income patients say drug manufacturers have threatened their financial stability by dramatically cutting back their participation in a federal drug discount program that saves those health providers millions of dollars a year. Without the drug discounts, the hospitals and clinics say, they are getting close to ...
The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case has caused a tidal wave of emotion and debate across the nation – especially about health care, and how it can be obtained. The high court ruled that access to pregnancy-termination/abortive care is not a constitutionally protected right. Instead, it is up to ...
When Pat Paulson’s son told her he was feeling anxious and depressed at college, Paulson went through her Blue Cross Blue Shield provider directory and started calling mental health therapists. No providers in the Wisconsin city where her son’s university is located had openings. So she bought a monthly subscription to BetterHelp, a Mountain View, ...
More than 2 million potential surprise medical bills across all patients in commercial plans were prevented in the first two months a key law went into effect, a new study said. Insurance groups AHIP and the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association released a survey and analysis (PDF) of the impact of the No Surprises Act, which banned ...
Biden administration officials are developing a plan to allow all adults to receive a second coronavirus booster shot, pending federal agency sign-offs, as the White House and health experts seek to blunt a virus surge that has sent hospitalizations to their highest levels since March 3. Virus levels have risen across the country, fueled by ...