Covered California to Cap Patient Costs for High-Priced Specialty Drugs

Covered California board members voted Thursday to become the first state health care exchange in the nation to impose price caps on high-cost specialty drugs to treat conditions such as hepatitis C and HIV.

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Multi-Carrier Private Exchange Eclipses California SHOP

Covered California's Small Employer Health Options Program (SHOP) is growing, but a private-sector competitor to the state-run HIX is growing even faster.

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Audit Questions Medicaid Billing by 335 California Dentists

A California dentist who treats children under Medicaid billed for more than 1,000 services a day for almost 100 days in 2012.

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Senate Panel Launches Probe Into ObamaCare Subsidies

A Senate panel announced an investigation Thursday into ObamaCare insurance subsidies, which Republicans claim have been improperly paid out without verification.

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GOP Lawmaker Presses House Leaders for ObamaCare Alternative

Another Republican lawmaker is warning House GOP leaders that they need to come up with a fully fledged plan in case the Supreme Court rules against ObamaCare next month.

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Number of Americans Using $100,000 in Medicines Triples

May 13 More than a half-million U.S. patients had medication costs in excess of $50,000 in 2014, an increase of 63 percent from the prior year, as doctors prescribed more expensive specialty drugs for diseases such as cancer and hepatitis C, according to an Express Scripts report released on Wednesday.

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