Several years ago, Highmark began questioning its exclusive relationships with specialty pharmacies and started working with Free Market Health, which matches patients to the pharmacy that best fits their needs. The post Why This Health Plan Moved Away from Exclusive Relationships with Specialty Pharmacies appeared first on MedCity News.
Since the Nov. 5 deadline passed for states to apply for their shares of the new $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation Program funding, officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have declined to publicly release the applications. Federal officials are using those submissions, most of them more than 100 pages long, to decide how to divide the…
A Fortina Hernández la llaman “la que lo sabe todo”. Durante más de dos décadas, esta trabajadora de salud comunitaria ha ayudado a cientos de familias del sureste de Los Ángeles a inscribirse en programas de ayuda alimentaria, ha informado sobre seguros médicos asequibles y ha ayudado con medicamentos para sus afecciones crónicas. Su frase…
Sheila O’Donnell has been instrumental in Crothall’s Health Technology Systems (HTS) tripling its revenues since 2016. HTS now manages over one million medical devices and clinical technologies in more than 200 U.S. hospitals. As Senior Vice President of the Technical Resource Group, she oversaw HTS’s operations, including information technology, cybersecurity, supply chain management, technology assessment,…
A handful of states have issued guidance documents that illustrate how regulators are viewing the IV hydration and IV therapy businesses, which infusion providers should consider as part of their overall compliance monitoring efforts. The post Infusion Industry Boom Raises Red Flag from State Regulators appeared first on MedCity News.
The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner @julierovner.bsky.social Read Julie’s stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A…
[Sponsored] Facing a loss of patients and revenue to outside referrals, Hancock Health joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network and achieved a dramatic turnaround. The post Hancock Health’s $1.1M Turnaround appeared first on MedCity News.
The legislative deadlock over ACA subsidies would leave many middle-income households facing higher premiums
As Congress considers changes to the Medicaid program as part of the budget debate, relatively few (17%) in the public say they want to see a reduction in Medicaid spending, with larger shares saying they want spending to stay about the same (40%) or increase (42%), a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. Support for…More