by Jordana Choucair | Jan 31, 2022 | D.C. News
Senators Patty Murray and Richard Burr are seeking a speedy path forward for their pandemic preparedness bill. Advocates close to the discussions say that it could be tied to other proposals on biomedical research that are in the mix, or that parts of the plan could...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 31, 2022 | Life Sciences
About 150 drugmakers raised their list prices by an average of 6.6 percent for 866 medicines in the United States in the first few weeks of 2022. The analysis from Rx Savings Solutions shows that the average price hike was higher than the 4.5 percent increase over the...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 31, 2022 | Payers
Last week, AHIP submitted comments reflecting the group’s concerns with provisions in the HHS Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2023. AHIP warned that proposed requirement for insurers to offer standardized plan options on the exchanges would “stifle...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 31, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
Lawmakers in 14 Republican-led states are pushing bills to limit or bar COVID-19 vaccination requirements for public and private K-12 schools. Another 15 states already have such bans in place. No state is currently enforcing a vaccine mandate for schoolchildren,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 31, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
More than 100,000 people in in the United States died from diabetes last year, representing a 15 percent increase over the pre-pandemic level in 2019. It is the second consecutive year that the number has topped 100,000. An expert panel is calling on Congress to...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 31, 2022 | Transition to Value
A RAND study found that health systems largely still pay primary care physicians and specialists based on volume-based incentives. Furthermore, 70 percent of practices use “increasing the volume of services delivered” as a means for physicians to increase their...
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