New Freestanding Clark County ERs Must Accept Medicare, Medicaid

New hospitals or medical centers that offer or advertise emergency services in Clark County will need to accept Medicare and Medicaid, starting this summer.

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Millennials’ Uninsured Rate Soars

The percentage of Millennials who lack major medical coverage may have soared since 2016. Analysts from the Transamerica Center for Health Studies are reporting new survey results that show loss of Medicaid coverage and individual major medical coverage has wiped out increased use of group health coverage.

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Newsom Changes Course On Plan To Pay For Immigrant Health Coverage

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration Friday reversed course on his plan to divert public health dollars from several counties to help provide health coverage to young adults who are in the country illegally.

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Hospitals Charge Employers 240% More Than Medicare

The study gathered data from hospitals in 25 states, finding a wide variation in what hospitals charged health plans. The researchers looked at claims data for more than 4 million people, with information coming from self-insured employers, state databases and records from participating health insurance plans.

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Teva and Other Generic Drugmakers Inflated Prices Up to 1000%, State Prosecutors Say

Leading drug companies including Teva, Pfizer, Novartis and Mylan conspired to inflate the prices of generic drugs by as much as 1,000 percent, according to a far-reaching lawsuit filed on Friday by 44 states.

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Now that Trump’s Forced Drug Prices Into Ads, What’s Next? Lawsuits and Compliance, for Two

Sorry, pharma. Self-policing didn't fend off an official rule requiring drug prices in TV ads. And now that the requirement is coming, response from the industry ranges from challenging to cheering—with a few potential lawsuits in the mix.

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