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You’ll never guess which company is reinventing health benefits
31 August 2018 - Frustrated with insurers, some large companies — including a certain cable behemoth — are shedding long-held practices ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Aug 2018
CMS provides new flexibility to increase prescription drug choices and strengthen negotiation for Medicare enrollees
29 August 2018 - The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a memo today to Medicare Part D plans, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Aug 2018
Patients being bled by specialists as out-of-pocket costs surge
30 August 2018 - Health insurance giant Medibank has warned that one in eight of its customers is being forced ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2018
Comparison of two treatment models: precision medicine and preventive medicine
28 August 2018 - In an effort to improve the risk-benefit profile of therapies in clinical care, precision medicine seeks to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Aug 2018
Eli Lilly CEO: why consumers are key to bringing down health care costs
27 August 2018 - For all of us who want better value in health care, seeing Apple, Amazon, and other ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Aug 2018
Bupa blunder: health insurer pays price for restricting hospital options
27 August 2018 - The biggest health insurer in Australia, Bupa, has admitted the controversial changes it made to paying ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Aug 2018
CVS’s drug price plan lets pharma off too easy
18 August 2018 - A new program aimed at keeping costs down allows too many expensive treatments to slip through. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2018
Feds urge states to encourage cheaper plans off the exchanges
14 August 2018 - For those who make too much money to qualify for health insurance subsidies on the individual ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Aug 2018
New drugs so pricey they need new payment plans
13 August 2018 - The FDA on Friday approved the first-ever RNA interference medicine — the latest in a rapidly ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Aug 2018
My Health Record opt-out period extended
10 August 2018 - Health Minister Greg Hunt has formally extended the opt-out period for My Health Record, as a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Aug 2018
Unions urge members to opt out of MyHealth Record
10 August 2018 - Uncertainty over the potential for employers to gain access to the private health data of workers ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
Health insurance discounts will benefit only the young rich: consumer groups
7 August 2018 - The proposed private health insurance discounts for young people will benefit only rich young people and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
Government looks to include biosimilars in price controls
7 August 2018 - The government has launched consultation on proposed changes to the statutory scheme for pharmaceutical pricing that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
Health insurance needs in-depth scrutiny in the public interest
7 August 2018 - Discounts on health insurance premiums for young people under 30 would erode the community-sharing principles of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
Slow rollout, more fine print with Trump health care options
6 August 2018 - President Donald Trump says insurers are “going wild” about his new health care options and “millions ...