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Hospitals are hiding prices from patients, advocacy report says
Patient Rights Advocate concluded that some hospitals owned by Ascension and HCA Healthcare are omitting rates for medical services from files made public under new federal rules.
By Susan Kelly • Oct. 10, 2022 -
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Providers now required to share greater scope of patient data
As of Thursday, the amount of data that healthcare entities must share to comply with sweeping information blocking regulations has increased, despite providers saying they’re not ready for the change.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Oct. 6, 2022 -
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SCOTUS won’t hear challenge to health worker vaccine mandate
In January, the high court upheld the CMS rule mandating that healthcare workers be vaccinated against COVID-19 at medical facilities that receive federal funding.
By Hailey Mensik • Oct. 4, 2022 -
Medicare Advantage premiums set to drop again next year
Enrollment in the popular plans is expected to continue to grow in 2023, CMS predicts.
By Susan Kelly • Oct. 3, 2022 -
Medicare Part B premium to drop for first time in a decade, Biden says
The reduction is tied to lower-than-expected spending for the controversial Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm.
By Susan Kelly • Sept. 28, 2022 -
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Stopgap Senate bill advances, but leaves COVID-19 funding behind
The bill cuts funding for COVID-19 and monkeypox aid but extends two rural hospital programs.
By Sydney Halleman • Sept. 28, 2022 -
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AHA asks HHS to delay Oct. 6 deadline for information blocking compliance
Health groups must start sharing health information electronically as regulators seek to make it easier for consumers to access their health data. But groups warn they’re not prepared to meet the deadline.
By Hailey Mensik • Sept. 27, 2022 -
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Nebraska awards Medicaid managed care contracts to 3 insurers
The health plans, selected from a field of five, will receive five-year contracts.
By Susan Kelly • Sept. 27, 2022 -
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DOJ’s case against UnitedHealth’s Change buy was hampered by ‘serious flaws,’ judge finds
The most serious flaws were failing to prove that UnitedHealth is likely to misuse Change Healthcare’s data to advantage the company, Judge Carl Nichols wrote.
By Samantha Liss • Sept. 23, 2022 -
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Surprise BillingTexas Medical Association files another lawsuit over surprise billing ban
“We are, once again, asking for the law to be followed as Congress intended, and for the challenged provisions to be invalidated,” TMA’s president said.
By Shannon Muchmore • Sept. 23, 2022 -
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Watchdog faults FDA for rushing COVID tests to market by easing emergency use rules
The HHS Office of Inspector General found that by loosening emergency use authorization requirements to bring COVID-19 tests to market faster, the agency allowed inaccurate tests to be distributed.
By Elise Reuter • Sept. 22, 2022 -
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Bipartisan Senate bill aims to boost mental health access, improve worker shortages
The legislation comes as the Biden Administration aims to tackle the country’s worsening mental health crisis, which was exacerbated by the pandemic.
By Sydney Halleman • Sept. 22, 2022 -
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Majority of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable, CDC says
Mental health conditions were the No. 1 cause of pregnancy-related mortality, the agency said.
By Susan Kelly • Sept. 21, 2022 -
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HHS ‘roadmap’ aims to tackle nation’s mental health crisis
The initiative prioritizes integrating behavioral health services into primary and other specialty care areas as well as community-based settings like schools.
By Susan Kelly • Sept. 21, 2022 -
Judge denies DOJ’s move to block $13B UnitedHealth, Change deal
The judge’s ruling follows a trial in which the DOJ argued that UnitedHealth’s bid for Change would disadvantage rivals and result in higher costs, lower quality and less innovative commercial health insurance.
By Samantha Liss • Sept. 20, 2022 -
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Health sector causes 10% of greenhouse gas emissions, report finds
The congressional report also found a majority of health systems surveyed had been affected by an extreme weather event.
By Susan Kelly • Sept. 19, 2022 -
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Hospitals sending ‘distress flare’ after billions in projected 2022 losses
A Thursday report prepared by Kaufman Hall showed that hospitals are likely to lose billions, driven by an overall expected $135 billion increase in expenses this year, and a $86 billion rise in labor costs alone.
By Sydney Halleman • Sept. 16, 2022 -
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First Medicaid mobile mental health service to launch in Oregon
The program supports the 988 national hotline and is part of President Joe Biden's strategy to combat the country's mental health crisis.
By Susan Kelly • Sept. 14, 2022 -
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Amazon, Walmart among hundreds of employers, health groups urging Senate to extend telehealth flexibilities
The groups sent a letter to lawmakers on Tuesday asking them to extend pandemic-era access to virtually delivered care, including waiving provider and patient location limitations.
By Rebecca Pifer Parduhn • Sept. 14, 2022 -
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Biden to ‘supercharge’ cancer moonshot initiative
The president wants the U.S. to cut cancer deaths by at least 50% in the next 25 years, while also turning “more cancers from death sentences into chronic diseases people can live with.”
By Hailey Mensik • Sept. 13, 2022 -
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Overturning of Roe v. WadeSen. Lindsey Graham introduces his strictest national abortion ban yet
The South Carolina lawmaker announced Tuesday that he planned to introduce a 15-week national abortion ban in Congress.
By Sydney Halleman • Sept. 13, 2022 -
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HHS will allow EUAs for monkeypox tests to increase access in US
The move follows the declaration of a public health emergency for the monkeypox outbreak on Aug. 4.
By Ricky Zipp • Sept. 8, 2022 -
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FDA issues first EUA for monkeypox test
Quest Diagnostics' PCR test for monkeypox received emergency use authorization after the FDA issued guidance on how it will evaluate the tests.
By Elise Reuter • Sept. 8, 2022 -
Physician groups urge CMS to prevent payment cuts, protect telehealth
Multiple groups representing doctors oppose Medicare payment reductions at a time when physician practices face escalating costs.
By Susan Kelly • Sept. 7, 2022 -
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OpinionMissed vaccines open path for return of preventable diseases
Immunization rates declined across the board beginning in March 2020, according to the CDC, but the most significant drop was among children who receive vaccines through the Vaccines for Children program.
By Patricia Stinchfield • Sept. 7, 2022
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