November 2016 – Page 12 – medicarereport.org

(By April Dembosky for NPR) San Francisco Bay Area companies say Sutter Health is strong-arming them into a contract that

Hospitals are itching for a share of the Mylan settlement over Medicaid rebates

(By Ed Silverman for STAT) More than 1,200 hospitals around the country want to know if they were overcharged by

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Indianapolis-based Anthem will consider pulling back its 2018 ACA exchange footprint if it

(By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review) UnitedHealth Group plans to launch a national ACO called NexusACO beginning in 2017,

(Source – www.cms.gov) announcement Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the 2017 Physician Fee Schedule final

(By Casey Ross for STAT) We hear a lot about the wonders of genetic testing, how it can revolutionize medicine

(By Meghana Keshavan for STAT) The simmering public outrage over drug prices finally seems to be catching up to the

HelathMetrix Research Inc., an independent research company specializing in Medicare research, reports there is little change in 2017 top Medicare

Health policy experts all agree something needs to be done to lower Medicare drug costs but none agree on how

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals estimates the Medicare appeals backlog of 750,000