by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 26, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
Yesterday, senate health committee leaders Bernie Sanders and Bill Cassidy announced an agreement on a bipartisan package to increase access to generic drugs and increase transparency required of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs).The package includes four bills that...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 26, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Biden administration have two vastly different estimates of the number of people who would become uninsured under the House Republicans’ debt bill, which would impose Medicaid work requirements. According to the CBO,...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 25, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
The health insurance industry trade association AHIP launched a national advertising campaign with the goal of exposing pharmaceutical companies’ role in high drug costs, saying they deflect blame for their role onto other areas of the health system. The ads,...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 25, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
The Biden administration on Saturday held its first “Nationwide Vaccination Day,” running vaccine pop-ups across 21 cities to boost vaccination rates in Black communities. The event was part of the White House’s broader “We Can Do This” COVID-19 Vaccine Public...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 25, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
A new Washington law aims to make it easier for patients to access aid-in-dying services under the state’s Death with Dignity Act. A measure Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law earlier this month will cut down the wait time between when patients first ask for...
by Jessica Casebolt | Apr 24, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
A report published last week by the American Hospital Association (AHA) shows a 17.5 percent increase in hospital expenses from 2019 to 2022 that more than doubled the period’s 7.5 percent rise in Medicare reimbursement. The report identified that labor costs...
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