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Ticking the Talons of Healthcare Transparency
As of January 1, employer-sponsored Group Health Plans and Health Insurance Issuers must make make the prices of 500 medical services available via an Internet-based tool. The Transparency in Coverage final rule gets even tougher on January 1, 2024, when the prices of all medical services must be made available via an Internet-based tool.
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340B drug discount program: Stop the abuse
Some major American healthcare providers are padding their bottom lines by exploiting a federal program […]
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Payer’s Place: Dawn Maroney
Dawn Maroney, President, Markets of Alignment Health and CEO of Alignment Health Plan, to discuss how they are using technology to provide better service and care to consumers.
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AD Hoc
We should all pay attention to our nomenclature. It’s not about “conflict of interest” — […]
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Fat, drunk, stupid… and uninsured
Yes Virginia, there is an interstate commerce clause. And there may yet be coal in […]
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MedCity Influencers, Pharma, Policy
An Obama tax credit to boost biopharma, R&D
Obama’s proposal would allow companies to take a 17 percent deduction above 50 percent of R&D costs. Research and development are at the heart of America’s most vibrant industries. Case in point: The biopharmaceutical sector. Biopharma innovation is usually noteworthy for saving lives. Three years after introducing the first antiretroviral treatments, AIDS deaths dropped 70 percent, and new pharmaceuticals are largely responsible for cutting cancer death rates in half .