More than 30 people have applied for a lab technician job at West River Health Services in Hettinger, North Dakota, a thousand-person town in the rural southwestern part of the state. Because they aren’t U.S. citizens, they would each need a visa. West River and other companies used to pay up to $5,000 in fees…
David Garza a veces siente que no tiene seguro médico, por lo caro que le cuesta tratar su diabetes tipo 2. Su prima mensual de $435 por la cobertura familiar es casi igual a la del seguro de su trabajo anterior. Pero el plan de salud de su empleo actual tiene un deducible anual de…
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We’ve been here before: congressional Democrats and Republicans sparring over the future of the Affordable Care Act. But this time there’s an extra complication. Though it’s the middle of open enrollment, lawmakers are still debating whether to extend the subsidies that have given consumers extra help paying their health insurance premiums in recent years. The…
When Su Wang was in medical school, she donated blood. That’s when she learned she was infected with hepatitis B, a virus that attacks the liver and can lead to cancer and death decades later. “I was 18, healthy, in college,” she said. “And suddenly I had a chronic illness I didn’t even know about.”…
That is the question asked in a recent Health Affairs Forefront article by Peter Neumann, Josh Cohen, Sean Sullivan and Feng Xie. They compare the CMS negotiated prices for Initial Price Applicability Year (IPAY) 2027 against value-based prices (using QALYs) from the Tufts Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (CEA) Registry. The authors found that cost-effectiveness estimates varied among…
Health systems should take the lead in fixing the broken prior authorization process, said Jeff Balser, CEO of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, during a recent conference. He highlighted AI, better workflows and centralized support as ways to reduce delays. The post Vanderbilt CEO: Health Systems Can Fix Prior Auth Without Waiting for Payers appeared first…