Many of President-elect Donald Trump’s candidates for federal health agencies have promoted policies and goals that put them at odds with one another or with Trump’s choice to run the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., setting the stage for internal friction over public health initiatives. The picks hold different views…
Perhaps this is what President Trump is exploring. Reuters reports: Drugmakers have been warned that the Trump Administration is considering linking U.S. medicine prices to lower amounts paid by other developed countries, according to two company sources who called the option the pharmaceutical industry’s top concern.Both sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said…
This brief uses 2021 Medicaid claims data to examine utilization among Medicaid expansion adults and estimate how much cost sharing these enrollees could be required to pay under the new requirement if all states imposed the maximum cost sharing amounts. This is an illustrative analysis intended to describe which enrollees may be subject to the…
Reducing unnecessary utilization, expanding timely access to care and easing workforce burdens can help providers and health plans deliver improved healthcare for complex patient populations in the year ahead. The post Closing Behavioral Care Gaps: Three Ways Providers And Health Plans Can Reimagine Care appeared first on MedCity News.
This chart collection examines how life expectancy in the U.S. compares to that of other similarly large and wealthy countries. Between 2019 and 2022, the U.S. experienced a sharper decline and a slower rebound in life expectancy than peer countries, on average, due to increased mortality and premature death rates in the U.S. from the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2023,…
CoPilotIQ said the merged company will allow customers to observe patients across the care continuum via one technology integration, one security audit, and simplified procurement
Tyler Cowen is an economist from George Washington University and a libertarian. Thus, you would expect his answer to this question would be ‘always’. In a recent Bloomberg article discussing whether to privatize government assets (e.g., USPS), he makes a more nuanced argument. First, for consumer goods, it is nearly always good to privatize. Cowen…
Re-envisioning chronic care for disadvantaged patients Northeast Valley Health Center leaders have found a way to reduce emergency visits for diabetic and asthmatic patients
What options do payers have for setting prices for high-cost drugs? Examples include volume discounts, performance based contracts and coverage with evidence. However, is there a comprehensive taxonomy one can use for defining all these different pricing and payment options? The closest we have come is a new paper by Ardito, Ciani & Drummond (2024)….