As states like Wisconsin get ready to impose Medicaid work requirements, there’s concern over how many people could lose health coverage — and what an increase in those without insurance could mean for hospitals.
Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Elizabeth is in confidential negotiations to join one of the state’s largest hospital systems, continuing a decade-long frenzy of mergers in New Jersey’s fierce healthcare market, NJ Advance Media has learned.
The CEOs of 23 prominent health care companies earned more than $632 million in 2018, based on the actual value of cashed-out stock, according Axios' most recent tally of federal securities documents. The bottom line: Executives of publicly traded companies get paid mostly in stock, so their incentives are to raise the stock price as much as possible.
Some states are moving to control costs of state employee health plans. Their strategy: Use Medicare reimbursement rates to recalibrate how they pay hospitals. If the gamble pays off, more private-sector employers could start doing the same thing.
Ohio’s attorney general on Monday said he had filed a lawsuit against UnitedHealth Group Inc’s OptumRx unit, saying the pharmacy benefit manager had overcharged the state nearly $16 million for prescription drugs.
Big drug companies have increasingly been releasing financial numbers that use nonstandard accounting, and that has at least one analyst on edge. Two companies that have released earnings numbers that differ the most from earnings calculated using standard accounting measures are Allergan(ticker: AGN) and Teva Pharmaceutical (TEVA), writes Credit Suisse analyst Vamil Divan in a note to investors.