by Jordana Choucair | May 17, 2022 | Access & Coverage
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a brief projecting that lowering Medicare coverage to Americans over 60 would add about 7.3 million people to the program and cost $155 billion over a five-year period. Lowering the eligibility age would result in about...
by Jordana Choucair | May 17, 2022 | Life Sciences
Twenty-four states filed a legal brief supporting the federal government’s battle against six drugmakers over 340B restrictions. The states said that the drugmakers – AstraZeneca, Eli Lilly, Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, and United Therapeutics – unlawfully cut off...
by Jordana Choucair | May 17, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
UnitedHealth Foundation’s latest America’s Health Ranking Senior Report revealed that drug-related deaths among adults 65 and older doubled over the course of a decade. Drug deaths among older adults rose from 4.2 per 100,000 to 8.4 per 100,000 between the 2008–2010...
by Jordana Choucair | May 17, 2022 | Payers
A new report from RAND found that employers and private insurance plans in 2020 paid hospitals 224 percent of what Medicare paid for the same services. Some states like Hawaii, Arkansas, and Washington had relative prices below 175 percent of Medicare prices, while...
by Jordana Choucair | May 17, 2022 | Providers
Johns Hopkins researchers found that government relief funding amid the COVID-19 pandemic played a substantial role in keeping hospitals afloat. The researchers found that even though hospitals’ mean operating margin declined from –1.0 percent in 2019 to –7.4 percent...
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