Monday, July 18, 2022: Payers

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a 2.7 percent boost to outpatient hospital payment rates for next year in addition to an enhanced payment for facilities that purchase N95 masks that are manufactured in the United States. CMS...

Monday, July 18, 2022: Payers

UnitedHealthcare announced Friday it plans to stop charging fully insured members a co-pay for insulin. UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty said on an earnings call that the timing of the move — which also includes cutting co-pays for other critical medicines like...

Friday, July 15, 2022: Access & Coverage

A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis found that 610,000 postpartum women were disenrolled from Medicaid within a year of giving birth. Of those, 31 percent were disenrolled within six months after delivery and 40 percent were disenrolled within a year. Among...

Friday, July 15, 2022: D.C. News

Senator Joe Manchin informed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that he would not support any additional money for climate spending or any attempts to raise corporate taxes. Manchin is in favor of a package that will lower prescription drug prices and extend...

Friday, July 15, 2022: Life Sciences

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued warning letters to AZ Swagg Sauce LLC and Electric Smoke Vapor House for not submitting a premarket application for is synthetic nicotine vaping products. The agency said the move, along with the other 107 warning letters...