Several provider groups are slamming recent payment rules offering small price hikes for 2023, as COVID-19 relief in place for more than two years erodes. Groups are clamoring for regulators to boost payments in the proposed 2023 Physician Fee Schedule and Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) rules. Providers say that added pressures of labor shortages, inflation and renewed surges ...

California will start making its own affordable insulin as part of an effort to combat high drug prices for a lifesaving medication that has been made inaccessible for some Americans living with diabetes, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Thursday.

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.