Medicare Pays For A Kidney Transplant, But Not The Drugs To Keep It Viable
(By Richard Harris for NPR) The federal government will pay more than $100,000 to give someone a kidney transplant, but
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New Medicare Rules Should Help ‘High Need’ Patients Get Better Treatment
(By Judith Graham for Kaiser Health News) Doctors have complained for years that they’re not paid adequately for time-consuming work
Read MoreAlleged Scheme To Fix Generic Drug Prices Started At Dinners And ‘Girls Nights Out’
(By Liz Szabo and JoNel Aleccia, and Mark Zdechlik, Minnesota Public Radio published by Kaiser Health News) The high prices
Read MoreCMS finalizes cardiac bundle, expands CJR: 10 things to know
(By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS released a rule on Tuesday that finalizes a mandatory bundled payment program
Read MoreReplicating Nature
In the science journal Angewandte Chemie, Timothy Noel at Eindhoven University of Technology, revealed he and his colleagues have developed
Read MoreIs Trump the first crack in the drug industry’s right flank?
(By Dylan Scott for STAT) WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is unorthodox, to say the least, when it comes to his opinions
Read MoreHospitals And Surgery Centers Play Tug-Of-War Over America’s Ailing Knees
(By Christina Jewett for Kaiser Health News) Five years ago, Dr. Ira Kirschenbaum, an orthopedic surgeon in the Bronx who
Read MoreAging And Addicted: The Opioid Epidemic Affects Older Adults, Too
(By Jenny Gold for Kaiser Health News) It took a lot of convincing for John Evard to go to rehab.
Read MoreAHA: Medicare underpaid hospitals by $41.6B in 2015
(By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review) Both Medicaid and Medicare underpaid hospitals in 2015, according to an American Hospital
Read MorePaying More for Outpatient
According to findings by the Health and Human Services inspector general, some Medicare beneficiaries who had heart stents inserted as
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