by Jordana Choucair | Nov 23, 2021 | Payers
Humana announced it reached a value-based care agreement with Minnesota-based health system Allina Health for the insurer’s Medicare Advantage (MA) members. The multiyear agreement will include emphasizing reimbursement to physicians based on health outcomes of...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 22, 2021 | D.C. News
The House passed President Biden’s roughly $2 trillion spending package to expand health care and bolster the nation’s social safety net by a vote of 220 to 213. Despite the pharmaceutical industry’s last-minute lobbying efforts, the drug pricing deal that would allow...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 22, 2021 | Life Sciences
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE said that their COVID-19 vaccine was 100 percent effective at preventing infections among adolescents ages 12 to 15 within four months of their second doses, and that the shot showed no safety concerns for at least six months afterward. The...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 22, 2021 | Life Sciences
A group of 15 human rights organizations is pushing President Biden to ensure that an intellectual property waiver for COVID-19 vaccines is enacted at the World Trade Organization. In a letter, the group says that access to the shots remains limited in low-income...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 22, 2021 | Payers
A new analysis from the Better Medicare Alliance found that the number of Medicare Advantage (MA) plans offering recently expanded supplemental benefits increased by 43 percent from 2021 to the 2022. Overall, MA plans that offered at least one of the five expanded...
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