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Trump Greenlights HSAs for DPC and Media Ignores It: Commentary
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -You might have missed this big news because the media largely ignored it, but President Donald Trump signed a historic health care health care executive order (EO) a few weeks ago. -
Federal Court Strikes Down Trump Rule on Drug Prices in TV Ads
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Trump administration’s plans to promote transparency in drug pricing suffered a significant, if not entirely unexpected, -
Trump Administration Proposes Pilot Program to Import Foreign Prescription Drugs
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Trump administration is working to permit the importation of less-expensive prescription drugs originally intended for foreign markets. -
CMS Denies Obamacare Funding for Partial Medicaid Expansion in Utah
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) turned down a first of its kind request to provide 90 percent funding for expanding Medicaid to able-bodied adults -
Price Transparency Is the Best Answer to Calls for Single-Payer
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -For generations, the prices hospitals charge patients with private insurance have been shrouded in secrecy. -
Medicaid Spending Gets the Spotlight During Ohio Budget Hearings
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The issue of Medicaid reform was in the spotlight at a hearing before the Ohio Senate Finance Committee during state budget discussions. -
Flattening Medical Exam Standards Will Imperil Health Care Quality
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -Among the endless metrics for assessing the quality of health care, one that is exceedingly important for measuring physician quality is on the chopping block. -
Report: Prescriptions Caused Opioid Addiction Crisis
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Opioids, the powerful painkillers that have brought relief to millions only to become a severe health problem of their own, were overprescribed by doctors to an unsuspecting public, a new report states. -
Outsized Air Ambulance Charges Under Scrutiny from Researchers, Congress
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Air ambulance companies bill consumers and private insurers 4.1 to 9.5 times more than what Medicare pays for the same service, a study from Johns Hopkins University finds. -
Congress Considers Targeting Secondary Patents on Prescription Drugs
Opinion -health-care-news, News -In another sign of growing impatience with the high cost of prescription drugs, bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the U.S. House that would limit pharmaceutical companies’ ability to delay the entry of generic drugs into the market. -
CMS Allows Medicare Advantage Plans to Expand
Opinion -health-care-news, News -A new rule announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will allow providers of Medicare Advantage plans to expand the kinds of benefits they offer so they can compete more with each other and attract more participants overall. -
Congress Considers Bill Targeting Hospital Consolidation
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The national discussion on what to do about surprise medical bills has overshadowed a bill in Congress that would freeze the practice of hospital consolidation whereby large companies buy smaller hospitals and then raise their prices. -
FAIR Care Act Generates Further Reform Measures on Capitol Hill
Opinion -health-care-news, News -A bill intended to increase the number of Americans with health insurance coverage and reduce insurance premium prices is gaining some traction on Capitol Hill with the introduction of several related bills. -
San Francisco Bans E-Cigarettes
Opinion -health-care-news, News -San Francisco has become the first city in the country to ban the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes. -
Wisconsin Lawmakers Continue to Resist Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Lawmakers in Wisconsin are resisting calls to expand Medicaid in the wake of a report by the Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) claiming expansion would lower premiums in the individual health insurance market by 7 to 11 percent. -
Ohio Senators Push Measure to End Surprise Medical Bills, Improve Price Transparency
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The Ohio Senate is trying to tackle rising medical costs with provisions in the chamber’s version of the state’s budget that would ban surprise medical bills and require hospitals and health care providers to be more transparent in their pricing. -
U.S. Senate Considers Reversing Supreme Court Patent Rulings
Opinion -health-care-news, News -A U.S. Senate panel is considering a bipartisan proposal that could broaden patent protection on discoveries involving natural processes, including human genes. -
Reinsurance, Direct Primary Care Can Improve Georgia’s Health Care Market, Study Finds
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Establishing a reinsurance program for the individual health insurance market and requiring large insurers to offer direct primary care coverage in their plans could help Georgia address “continuing problems” in the state’s health care system, a new study -
Employers Take Steps to Rein in Rising Health Insurance Costs
Opinion -health-care-news, News -No longer content to let government, hospitals, doctors, and insurance companies shape the nation’s health care system, employers are showing a growing willingness to rein in rising medical costs on their own, concludes a new report by the PwC Health Rese -
President Takes Aim at Health Care Costs by Promoting Transparency
Opinion -health-care-news, News -In a far-reaching executive order, President Trump directed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to spearhead a multiagency effort to assist patients in making informed decisions when addressing their health care needs. -
Oklahoma Supreme Court Allows Medicaid Expansion Ballot Initiative
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Within hours of hearing oral arguments, the Oklahoma Supreme Court rejected an effort to stop a petition drive that would put Medicaid expansion on the 2020 ballot. -
North Carolina Lawmakers Continue to Disagree on Medicaid Expansion
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Plans to expand Medicaid coverage to hundreds of thousands of additional North Carolina residents remain in limbo, with lawmakers arguing over how to pay for the program and whether the expansion should include a work requirement. -
Finding Best Doctors Is Not Easy When Government Interferes
Opinion -health-care-news, News -Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have put aside grandiose thoughts of Medicare for All and single-payer health insurance—at least for a day or two. -
Public Is Highly Worried About Health Care Costs, Poll Finds
Opinion -health-care-news, News -One in four Americans either skipped health care treatment in the last 12 months or borrowed money to pay for it, a national survey by West Health Policy Center and Gallup finds.
