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Pfizer Settles Kickback Case Related To Copay Assistance For $24M

May 24, 2018 at 09:27 pm by Staff

. Sydney Lupkin, Kaiser Health News Pfizer will pay the government nearly $24 million as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that it funneled money through a founda.... Read More

Vermont Legislators Pass A Drug Importation Law. So What?

May 22, 2018 at 12:39 am by Staff

  Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News This week, Vermont passed a first-in-the-nation law that would facilitate the state's importation of prescription drugs wholesale f.... Read More

Trump Vows (Again) To Lower Drug Prices But Skeptics Doubt Much Will Change

May 13, 2018 at 12:33 pm by Staff

. Sarah Jane Tribble, Liz Szabo Kaiser Health News President Donald Trump, armed with the expertise of staff seasoned in the ways of the drug industry, unveiled his blueprin.... Read More

Under Trump Proposal, Lawful Immigrants Might Be Inclined To Shun Health Benefits

May 13, 2018 at 11:12 am by Staff

. Christina Jewett, Melissa Bailey, Paula Andalo, Kaiser Health News The Trump administration is considering a policy change that might discourage immigrants who are seeking.... Read More

Federal Officials Say No-Go To Lifetime Limits On Medicaid

May 08, 2018 at 03:59 pm by Staff

Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News The Trump administration's promise of unprecedented flexibility to states in running their Medicaid programs hit its limit Monday. The Cent.... Read More

GDPR Takes Effect in May and Health Care Organizations Need to Get Ready

May 06, 2018 at 06:24 pm by Staff

By John Barchie In 2017, over 8.1 million citizens of European Union countries visited the United States as tourists, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Most of.... Read More

The Lowedown on Health Law

May 03, 2018 at 08:51 pm by Staff

. By MICHAEL R. LOWE, Esq. Administrative Defense Coverage and/or Administrative Proceedings Defense Coverage: Welcome Addition or Necessary "Evil"? While most healthcare.... Read More

CMS Proposes Changes to Empower Patients and Reduce Administrative Burden

Apr 29, 2018 at 03:46 pm by Staff

Changes in Inpatient Prospective Payment System and Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System would advance price transparency and interoperability . Today, the.... Read More

CMS Drives Patient-Centered Care over Paperwork in Proposals to Modernize Medicare and Reduce Burden

Apr 27, 2018 at 05:40 pm by Staff

Proposed rules would advance administrative burden reduction, Medicare modernization, and the Meaningful Measures Initiative The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.... Read More

Nation's Top Doc Wants The Overdose Antidote Widely On Hand. Is That Feasible?

Apr 19, 2018 at 05:04 pm by Staff

. Shefali Luthra, Rachel Bluth, Kaiser Health News When Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory calling for more people to carry naloxone -- not just people at overd.... Read More

Congress Urged To Cut Medicare Payments To Many Stand-Alone ERs

Apr 19, 2018 at 04:31 pm by Staff

. Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News The woman arrived at the emergency department gasping for air, her severe emphysema causing such shortness of breath that the physicia.... Read More

Medical Marijuana's 'Catch-22': Federal Limits On Research Hinder Patients' Relief

Apr 12, 2018 at 12:30 pm by Staff

  Marisa Taylor, Melissa Bailey, Kaiser Health News By the time Ann Marie Owen turned to marijuana to treat her pain, she was struggling to walk and talk. She also hall.... Read More

C-SPAN: FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Talks Opioids to Drug Prices

Apr 09, 2018 at 07:00 pm by Staff

Kaiser Health News reporter Sarah Jane Tribble sat down with Dr. Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, on C-SPAN's "Newsmakers" program, wh.... Read More

Scrutiny Increases on Healthcare Providers in Central Florida

Apr 09, 2018 at 12:03 pm by Staff

By A. Lee Bentley, III, and Jason Mehta In the past month, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida--the primary federal law enforcement authority in Ce.... Read More

CMS Lowers the Cost of Prescription Drugs for Medicare Beneficiaries

Apr 03, 2018 at 12:05 am by Staff

Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized polices for Medicare health and drug plans for 2019 that will save Medicare beneficiaries money on pr.... Read More

Scrutinizing Medicare Coverage For Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapy

Mar 29, 2018 at 05:14 pm by Staff

  Judith Graham, Kaiser Health News   For years, confusion has surrounded the conditions under which older adults can receive physical, occupational and s.... Read More

Thousands Mistakenly Enrolled During California's Medicaid Expansion, Feds Find

Mar 28, 2018 at 09:48 pm by Staff

  Chad Terhune, Kaiser Health News   California signed up an estimated 450,000 people under Medicaid expansion who may not have been eligible for coverage, accord.... Read More

United States Intervenes In Lawsuit Against Oviedo Company and Businessman Alleging Medicare Fraud

Mar 28, 2018 at 01:47 pm by Staff

The United States has filed a civil lawsuit against Central Medical Systems, LLC (CMS) and Alan Trent Harley alleging that they had falsely billed Medicare for wound care.... Read More

CMS Proposes Regulation to Alleviate State Burden

Mar 22, 2018 at 12:53 pm by Staff

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would provide state flexibility from certain regulatory access.... Read More

Congress Tackles The Opioid Epidemic. But How Much Will It Help?

Mar 20, 2018 at 07:22 pm by Staff

  Shefali Luthra, Kaiser Health News The nation's opioid epidemic has been called today's version of the 1980s AIDS crisis. In a speech Monday, President Donald Trump.... Read More