Humana has expanded a bundled payment model
Humana announced it has expanded a bundled payment model into seven additional states that will cover hip and knee replacements
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Health Care Finance
People use their tax refunds to pay for key medical expenses
The JPMorgan Chase Institute analyzed the out-of-pocket spending habits of 1.2 million Americans who received a tax refund in 2016
Read MoreCBO: Medicare spending to climb 7% each year after 2018 — with nearly 5 percentage points reflecting cost growth
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) The Congressional Budget Office projects Medicare spending will grow to $1.2 trillion by
Read MoreCalifornia Aims To Tackle Health Care Prices In Novel Rate-Setting Proposal
(By Chad Terhune for California Healthline produced by Kaiser Health News) Backed by labor and consumer groups, a California lawmaker
Read MoreHow A Drugmaker Turned The Abortion Pill Into A Rare-Disease Profit Machine
(By Sarah Jane Tribble for Kaiser Health News) Even though the $550 yellow pills sold as Korlym have a controversial
Read MoreTo Curb Rising Health Insurance Costs, Some States Try ‘Reinsurance Pools’
(By Michael Ollove for Stateline, an initiative of The PEW Charitable Trusts) A couple of years ago, the health insurance exchange
Read MoreA Tale Of Two CT Scanners — One Richer, One Poorer
(By Alison Kodjak, NPR News for Kaiser Health News) Benjamin Hynden, a financial adviser in Fort Myers, Fla., hadn’t been
Read MoreMillennials more satisfied with health plans, out-of-pocket costs than baby boomers
(By Megan Knowles for Becker’s Hospital Review) The majority (53 percent) of millennials are extremely or very satisfied with out-of-pocket
Read MoreMedicare approves Yescarta for cancer patients who will have a copayment of nearly $80,000
According to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Medicare will pay hospitals close to its standard mark-up rate for
Read MoreMedPAC recommends slashing payments for some standalone EDs by 30%
(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission on April 5 approved reducing payments for a
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