by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 28, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
A new study found that Medicare Advantage (MA) had fewer avoidable hospitalizations for acute conditions compared to traditional Medicare, a trend that may be caused by shifting patients to other sites of care. The study, published in the Journal of the American...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 28, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
The misuse of antibiotics during the COVID-19 pandemic points to a need for provider systems to shore up their antimicrobial stewardship programs, according to experts at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention. A new research letter in the Journal of the...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 28, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Almost 7 million children and teens are at risk of losing their health coverage when the public health emergency ends, new estimates from the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute show. In April, states will begin redetermining Medicaid eligibility as...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 27, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
The temporary boost to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits put into place during the COVID-19 pandemic will end this week. The end of the emergency allotments aimed at combating food insecurity will impact more than 41 million Americans who...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 27, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Fourteen rural-state senators are calling on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to extend a payment policy that increases payments to hospitals in areas with lower overall wages, which is set to expire at the end of the government’s 2023 fiscal year. The...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 27, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Payers should be keeping a close eye on developments in the drug pipeline for Alzheimer’s disease therapies—and how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) responds to those developments, according to a new report from Optum. The report...
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