23 payers proposing double-digit premium hikes for 2018
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) Below are 23 payers proposing double-digit premium hikes for coverage offered on the
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End-Of-Life Advice: More Than 500,000 Chat On Medicare’s Dime
(By JoNel Aleccia for Kaiser Health News) The 90-year-old woman in the San Diego-area nursing home was quite clear, said
Read MoreClimbing Cost Of Decades-Old Drugs Threatens To Break Medicaid Bank
(By Sydney Lupkin for Kaiser Health News) Skyrocketing price tags for new drugs to treat rare diseases have stoked outrage
Read MoreA Long And Winding Road: Kicking Heroin In An Opioid ‘Treatment Desert’
(By Brian Rinker for Kaiser Health News) Heather Menzel squirmed in her seat, unable to sleep on the Greyhound bus
Read MoreA ‘Vaccine For Addiction’ Is No Simple Fix
(By Richard Harris for NPR) It’s always appealing to think that there could be an easy technical fix for a
Read More10 Medicare Advantage plans ranked by member satisfaction
(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review) For the third year in a row, Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente topped J.D.
Read MoreMedicaid Bill Backlog Pushing Illinois Doctors To The Brink Of Closure
(By Christine Herman for Side Effects Public Media) After 18 years serving the Metro East region of Illinois, pediatrician Kristin
Read MoreLawsuits Filed Against CVS and Walgreens for Overcharging Customers for Generic Drugs
Two separate lawsuits have been filed against CVS and Walgreens stating that both companies charged insured customers more for generics
Read MoreObesity And Depression Are Entwined, Yet Scientists Don’t Know Why
(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News) About 15 years ago, Dr. Sue McElroy, a psychiatrist in Mason, Ohio, started
Read MorePeople Back Editing Genes To Treat Disease, But Are Wary Of Inheritable Changes
(By Courtney Columbus for NPR) People generally think that editing human genes might be OK, but most think that there’s
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