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...
by Jordana Choucair | May 16, 2022 | D.C. News
The Biden administration is expected to signal this week if it will extend the COVID-19 public health emergency. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) extended the emergency declaration through July 15 and committed to giving states and health providers 60...
by Jordana Choucair | May 16, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
According to a Kaiser Health News analysis, states have spent little of the $2.25 billion funding the Biden administration provided to them to address COVID-19 health disparities. In May 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded grants to...
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