Even With Insurance, She Faced $227K In Medical Bills. What It Took To Get Answers.
(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News) The first surprise was the massive heart attack, which struck as Debbie Moehnke
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Humana to expand primary care network
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Humana plans to extend its senior-focused primary care network to more cities, according
Read MoreBiogen halts studies of closely watched Alzheimer’s drug, a blow to hopes for new treatment
(By Adam Feuerstein for STAT) Alzheimer’s disease has beaten back another effort to tame it. Biogen and its Japanese pharma
Read More“Affordability boards” to review expensive drugs
To rein in prescription drug prices, several states are considering new “affordability boards” to review expensive drugs and if it
Read MorePrescribing food as medicine is more cost effective
A new study suggests that prescriptions for healthy foods cold help lower the risk of expensive chronic illnesses like cardiovascular
Read MoreFentanyl-Linked Deaths: The U.S. Opioid Epidemic’s Third Wave
(By Martha Bebinger for NPR) Men are dying after opioid overdoses at nearly three times the rate of women in
Read MoreBiosimilar approval and adoption in the U.S. needs to be expedited
(By Carlos Sattler and Sheila Frame for STAT) Generic versions of brand-name small-molecule drugs saved Americans more than $1 trillion between 1999
Read MoreCMS to revise fines on Medicare Advantage plans
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS is proposing an update to how it calculates fines imposed on Medicare
Read MoreHealth Plans For State Employees Use Medicare’s Hammer On Hospital Bills
States. They’re just as perplexed as the rest of us over the ever-rising cost of health care premiums. Now some
Read MoreMedicare – no routine dental coverage
Medicare covers approximately 60 million Americans and about 65 percent or 37 million people, do not have dental coverage. Medicare
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