After roughly a year of requiring hospitals to publicly post their prices, the top federal health regulator has delivered hundreds of warnings but has not yet seen fit to issue any civil monetary penalties. As of an early December tally, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) had issued roughly 335 warning notices to ...
Home COVID tests are now available at no cost to most Americans, as part of the Biden administration’s effort to increase testing around the United States. Folks can buy home tests online or in stores and be fully reimbursed by their private insurance, without any copays or deductibles. The White House also plans to distribute 1 ...
For companies that were waiting to hear from the U.S. Supreme Court before deciding whether to require vaccinations or regular coronavirus testing for workers, the next move is up to them. Many large corporations were silent on Thursday’s ruling by the high court to block a requirement that workers at businesses with at least 100 employees be ...
Intentions were good, but the new federal rules that were supposed to make hospital bills easier to figure out are instead doing little to help. Hospital prices and reimbursements have long been a riddle wrapped around a cipher. Why the same surgical procedure, aspirin, or IV vary so much in cost between facilities, health systems, ...
Even if enough people build natural immunity to Covid-19 by catching the highly contagious Omicron variant, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci said it is too soon to say if this will spell an end to the pandemic. On Monday, Dr. Fauci, President Biden’s top medical adviser for Covid, was asked at the online World Economic Forum ...
Most Medicare beneficiaries in Parts A and B are expected to be enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans by next year, but spending on the plans is going to continue to outpace traditional fee-for-service, a congressional advisory panel found. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), a panel that makes recommendations to Congress on Medicare policy, released ...