by Jordana Choucair | Jan 31, 2023 | Payers
The Biden administration finalized a rule that will implement audits of Medicare Advantage (MA) insurers in an effort to identify and recover overpayments. Medicare projects to get back $479 million for audits of 2018 plans, and the government expects to recoup $4.7...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 31, 2023 | Payers
A new issue brief from the Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. continued to far outspend other developed nations while seeing worsening health outcomes in the first year of the pandemic. According to the brief, the U.S. spent nearly $12,000 on health care per...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 30, 2023 | Access & Coverage
Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved California’s landmark Medicaid 1115 reentry waiver, allowing California inmates to access limited services 90 days before being released. Not only will this waiver improve health care...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 30, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH
CVS Health launched the Community Equity Alliance, an initiative aimed at addressing barriers to care in underserved communities. The initiative will fund three partners – Meharry Medical College, Sinai Chicago, and Wayne State University – for locally tailored...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 30, 2023 | Life Sciences
A study published in JAMA Health Forum found that a provision in the Inflation Reduction Act (Act) that allows Medicare to negotiate prices on the costliest prescription drugs each year will likely save the U.S. billions of dollars. Researchers identified 40 drugs...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 30, 2023 | Life Sciences
The U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity unanimously approved draft recommendations to push for broader oversight of research on pathogens. The recommendations also call for stopping exemptions for research related to vaccine development and...
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