by Jordana Choucair | Sep 20, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
Pew Charitable Trust released a new issue briefing discussing how federal and state regulations are hindering access to opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment. Pew found that nearly all states have rules governing OUD treatments that are not based in evidence and, in...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 20, 2022 | Payers
Centene Corp. agreed to pay $165.6 million to Texas to resolve claims that it overcharged the state’s Medicaid program for pharmacy services. The health insurer and state reached the settlement on July 11. The agreement is Centene’s largest known payout over its drug...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 20, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
New Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data found that more than 80 percent of pregnancy-related deaths that occurred between 2017 and 2019 were preventable. Twenty-two percent of pregnancy-related deaths took place during pregnancy, 25 percent occurred...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 19, 2022 | D.C. News
President Biden said during an interview with “60 Minutes” that the COVID-19 pandemic “over,” but acknowledged there is still a lot of work to do. The president said that the U.S. still has “a problem with COVID,” noting that the pandemic has had a “profound...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 19, 2022 | Payers
A Willis Towers Watson survey found that U.S. employers expect health care costs to increase by 6 percent in 2023. Fifty-four percent of the 455 employers who responded to the survey reported that their health care costs in 2022 will be over budget. Another 70 percent...
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