Monday, September 12, 2022: Payers

The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Conditions released a playbook offering strategies for plan sponsors to harness newly-released price transparency and quality data as leverage to drive down prices. The tool pulls from multiple data sources – including...

Friday, September 9, 2022: Health IT

A study conducted by Harvard University researchers found that a small number of primary care providers have been responsible for most of the recent growth in remote patient monitoring. Out of a group of 342 high-volume providers, 0.1 percent accounted for 69 percent...

Friday, September 9, 2022: Life Sciences

The Biden administration issued a press release stating it purchased 100 million rapid at-home COVID-19 tests with its “limited funding.” Earlier this week, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra said that there is currently an...

Friday, September 9, 2022: Providers

The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) sent a letter urging Congress to block the 10.4 percent Medicare cuts to provider reimbursement scheduled for 2023. According to an AMGA survey conducted on August 29, 65 percent of member medical groups and health systems...