Senators had promised that their ACA replacement would be very different than the version that passed the House in May, but the bill instead follows the House’s lead in many ways.
Nolan and Jack Willis, twins from upstate New York, and just 10 other boys took part in a clinical trial that led to the approval last fall of the very first drug to treat their rare, deadly muscle disease. Now the Willis boys are again test cases as a different type of...
Healthcare leaders who are able to determine the true cost of care for all or most of the care they provide report year-over-year savings of 5% or more for their most recent fiscal year.
Across the nation, individual market customers are seeing signs of big premium increases, which insurers are largely attributing to the possibility of losing the federal cost-sharing subsidies and of Mr. Trump’s not enforcing the health law’s mandate that most people...
Super-users consist of just 3 percent of all all hospital patients in the state, but they account for 15 percent of hospital days and 10 percent of payments to hospitals — or $1.25 billion in 2016A a state report says.
"It’s a scam," says one healthcare economist. But the Food and Drug Administration is authorized to review new drugs like Vimovo only for safety and effectiveness, not prices.
Senior administrative officials met Friday to discuss an executive order on the cost of pharmaceuticals, a roundtable informed by Trump’s "Drug Pricing and Innovation Working Group."
A bipartisan group of governors are criticizing the Republican health care bill currently being crafted in Congress, arguing the legislation fails to protect the vulnerable and shifts the financial burden of coverage to the states.
Minnesota hospital executives expect big hits to bottom lines and possible service disruptions if Congress approves President Donald Trump's proposed budget or the U.S. Senate passes a health care reform bill like one approved by the House.
When Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) proposed a "Medicare for all" health plan in his presidential campaign, the nonpartisan Urban Institute figured that it would raise government spending by $32 trillion over 10 years, requiring a tax increase so huge that even the...
