Federal Judge's Ruling Threatens Preventive Care Coverage in ACA
(MedPage Today) -- A federal judge in Texas agreed on Wednesday with plaintiffs -- a handful of employers in the state -- that requiring insurers to cover the costs of medications for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) infringed on their religious... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - September 7, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Obamacare can't require coverage for certain HIV prevention drugs, federal judge rules
A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday struck down an Affordable Care Act requirement that insurers and employers offer plans that cover HIV-prevention drugs. #insurers #obamacare #hivpreventiondrugs (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - September 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Massachusetts Legislation To Curb Use Of Step Therapy - A Health Insurers ’ Drug Cost Containment Tool- Fails To Move Forward
This summer, the Massachusetts House and Senate passed legislation aimed at curbing the use of step therapy. Yet the House and Senate couldn ’t agree on an item in the bill. Despite failing to go through, patient advocates are still hopeful a bill can get done in the last 4 months of the session. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 7, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Joshua Cohen, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Decision Maker Content decisionmaker business pharma & Source Type: news
Multiple Blue Cross Insurers Sue Nebraska-based Clinical Laboratory Company for Alleged COVID-19 Test Price Gauging
Insurers from three states claim pandemic start-up medical lab company charged as much as $979 for SARS-CoV-2 PCR test In an unprecedented move, Blue Cross insurers in three states are suing a clinical laboratory company in Nebraska for test price gauging during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit claims that the lab company charged as much […]
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Source: Dark Daily - September 7, 2022 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Jillia Schlingman Tags: Coding, Billing, and Collections Compliance, Legal, and Malpractice Laboratory Management and Operations Laboratory News Laboratory Pathology Laboratory Testing 88MED anatomic pathology APM Reports Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City Source Type: news
With Assist From Health Plans, Biden Knocks Record Uninsured Rate Even Lower
As health insurers expand Obamacare into more states and counties, look for the nation ’s uninsured rate to fall to record lows. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 4, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Japsen, Senior Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation Enterprise Tech /enterprise-tech business pharma Source Type: news
Med device company seeks scale — literally — to beat heart failure
The San Francisco company is looking to build out its commercial team as well as build its clinical case to doctors and insurers. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - August 29, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Ron Leuty Source Type: news
Docs Likely to See Pay Raise From Private Insurers in 2023, Expert Says
(MedPage Today) -- Private insurers likely will increase the rates they pay physicians in 2023 more than public programs like Medicare will, Corey Rhyan, MPP, said at a webinar on healthcare inflation sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation ... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - August 25, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Plume scoops up $24M for virtual transgender healthcare
The startup plans to use the funds to expand nationwide, add virtual primary care services and get its offerings covered by insurers. (Source: mobihealthnews)
Source: mobihealthnews - August 24, 2022 Category: Information Technology Source Type: news
With billions of dollars at stake, CVS Corp. battles insurers over opioid lawsuit costs
The Woonsocket-based CVS Corp. is waging a legal battle with dozens of insurance companies that claim they are not responsible for paying for settlements or judgments in opioid lawsuits where the pharmacy giant is named as a defendant. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - August 24, 2022 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Mary Serreze Source Type: news
With billions of dollars at stake, CVS Corp. battles insurers over opioid lawsuit costs
The Woonsocket-based CVS Corp. is waging a legal battle with dozens of insurance companies that claim they are not responsible for paying for settlements or judgments in opioid lawsuits where the pharmacy giant is named as a defendant. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - August 24, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Mary Serreze Source Type: news
With billions of dollars at stake, CVS Corp. battles insurers over opioid lawsuit costs
CVS Corp. is waging a legal battle with dozens of insurance companies that claim they are not responsible for paying for settlements or judgments in opioid lawsuits where the pharmacy giant is named as a defendant. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - August 23, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Mary Serreze Source Type: news
These Apps Pay You in Crypto for Working Out
Some of us look at a treadmill, sigh dramatically, and declare: “You couldn’t pay me to go to the gym.” Others, however, can be bribed into working out with small amounts of obscure cryptocurrencies.
Those in the latter crowd are the target audience for move-to-earn apps, which reward users with cryptocurrency, non-fungible tokens (NFTs, which are unique digital tokens), or points (like the kind you earn with a credit card) in exchange for working out. On the app Sweatcoin, for example, users earn one cryptocurrency token—or Sweatcoin—for every 1,000 steps they take; these can be saved or rede...
Source: TIME: Health - August 22, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized Exercise & Fitness healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Surprise Billing Regulations Finalize Insurer-Doctor Dispute Process
(MedPage Today) -- HHS issued its final rule Friday for part of the No Surprises Act, smoothing over some language that physician groups had argued would give insurers an unfair advantage in pricing disputes, although the rule itself is largely... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - August 22, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Insurer Centene changes course on East Coast HQ in Charlotte
Government health insurance provider Centene Corp. says it no longer plans to create an East Coast campus in Charlotte, North Carolina (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - August 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
Insulin and reconciliation
With Congress sending to the president a partisan reconciliation spending bill, the cost of insulin is receiving greater attention. Numerous proposals have been introduced in recent months aimed at capping what patients pay out of pocket for insulin. Despite what theWhite House ’s talking points falsely suggest, PhRMA hasn ’t taken a position on these bills. The same can’t be said, however, of pharmacy benefit managers – middlemen who work for insurers. Their association has been running ads urging lawmakers to reject lower insulin costs for patients: (Source: The Catalyst)
Source: The Catalyst - August 15, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Brian Newell Tags: Diabetes Health Insurance Pharmacy Benefit Managers Source Type: news
