Showing posts with label Health care costs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health care costs. Show all posts
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Latest Report on National Health-Related Spending in 2023

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From Health Affairs  on-line today : In an ahead-of-print article published [Dec. 18], Anne B. Martin and colleagues at the Centers for Med...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

Health Affairs: "The Impact Of The Election On Health Policy And The Courts"

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The nonpartisan and highly respected journal, Health Affairs , today posted an analysis of some of the more conspicuous (and worrying) chan...
Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Toddler's Snake Bite Costs $290K+ to Treat

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Two-year-old Brigland Pfeffer was playing with his sibs in their San Diego backyard when he was bitten by a rattlesnake. Ouch!  His was one ...
Thursday, October 10, 2024

New England Journal of Medicine: "The Failing U.S. Health System"

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It should come as a shock to no one that our health care "system" is only a "system" in the loosest sense of the word. ...
Tuesday, October 01, 2024

Health Care Policy and the 2024 Election

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The presidential campaign hasn't been much about health law, and up to two-thirds of adults are concerned about the lack of discussion ....
Saturday, June 22, 2024

Mark Hall on HCA's Acquisition of Tax-Exempt Health System

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Wake Forest law professor Mark Hall has released the latest chapter in his exhaustive preliminary report on the 2019 acquisition of Ashevill...
Saturday, April 27, 2024

Negotiating with Big Pharma Over Drug Prices for Medicare

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You really can't blame Big Pharma for hating the new federal law that authorizes the Medicare program (for the first time in its 59-year...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Prior Authorization & Your Health Insurer

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Once upon a time, the way health insurance worked was this: Patients with insurance were seen by their doctors, received prescriptions for m...
Saturday, March 09, 2024

Revised Merger Guidelines from DOJ & FTC: What Effect on Hospital Acquisitions of Physician Practices?

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  On Dec. 18, 2023, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission issued their updated Merger Guidelines , hitting the ...
Friday, March 08, 2024

Biden's State of the Union Address: 13 Health Care Take-aways

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Becker's Hospital Review takes a look at "13 healthcare takeaways" from President Biden's State of the Union address las...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Out-of-Pocket Costs Are Top of the List of Voters' Concerns

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Money's tight. Inflation seems to be stuck at a level that bothers voters -- R, D, and Ind alike. Worries that the Fed may back off a no...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

Hospital Discharge Planning: It Takes a SYSTEM

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On Thursday (Dec. 7), I posted about a Catholic hospital system in California that has taken to suing patients for trespass when they refus...
Tuesday, August 15, 2023

Health Insurers' Tactic Resurfaces With a Vengeance: Deny, Deny, Deny

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I once had a Health Law student who had been an HMO employee in a previous life. She was the one who answered the phone when a provider (hos...
Saturday, August 05, 2023

Is Common-Law Contract Theory Superior to the No Surprises Act?

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A new article from David Orentlicher et al.: "Limiting Overall Hospital Costs by Capping Out-of-Network Rates" [ Free Download ] A...
Friday, July 28, 2023

Pharmaceutical Firms Seek to Block Price Negotiations with Medicare

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The New York Times has an excellent piece (23/24 July) on the drug industry's efforts to derail drug-pricing negotiations with Medicar...
Sunday, July 09, 2023

Surprise medical bills, 'junk' insurance - new proposals from Biden administration

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We've been hearing about "surprise medical bills" for years. A colleague of mine had surgery over a decade ago and did everyth...
Sunday, July 02, 2023

Private Equity, Consolidation, and Prices of HC Goods and Services

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Good article in the Washington Post on June 29 . The case study concerns U.S. Anesthesia Partners, which has been on a buying spree. The bu...
Saturday, June 17, 2023

CMS estimates national health expenditures to increase to 19.6% of GDP in 10 years

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From Health Affairs  ( online, June 14 ): New estimates released today from the Office of the Actuary (OACT) at the Centers for Medicare and...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

More on Consolidation within the Health Care Industry

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Fortune 's team of Maria Aspan and Erika Fry have focused their analytical lens on the growth of health care firms in their recent arti...
Friday, May 19, 2023

"Preauthorization" and why your insurer is out to get you

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I am not saying health insurers are evil. Or that their policies are evil. But their claims-handling practices are very often ill-advised, a...