by Jordana Choucair | Dec 12, 2022 | Providers
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) is poised to recommend that Congress increase 2024 Medicare payment to hospitals by 1 percent over what the law prescribes. The group is also likely to recommend a pay boost for clinicians paid through the physician...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 9, 2022 | Access & Coverage
Senators Tammy Baldwin and Patty Murray introduced a bill that would help fund expenses for women who need to travel to undergo abortion procedures.The Reproductive Health Travel Fund Ac would authorize $350 million annually in grants over the next five years for...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 9, 2022 | Life Sciences
The Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. and the Purchaser Business Group on Health’s EmansaRx jointly launched EmansaRx Plus, a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) majority-owned by the business group that supplements employers’ existing drug benefits. EmansaRx Plus...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 9, 2022 | Life Sciences
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized updated COVID-19 shots from Pfizer and Moderna that target the omicron variant for children as young as six months. Children between 6 months and 5 years old who received the Moderna primary series can receive the...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 9, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
The White House launched a new national dashboard to track non-fatal opioid overdoses and provide first responders, clinicians, and policymakers with real-time, actionable information to improve the country’s response and save lives. The Nonfatal Opioid Overdose...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 9, 2022 | Payers
A Mercer survey of more than 2,000 companies found that employers expect benefits costs to increase by 5.4 percent next year as health care cost rates catch-up with inflation. Still, most (84 percent) said that “enhancing benefits to improve attraction and...
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