The health care package would include substantial reforms to the business practices of pharmacy benefit managers, who negotiate drug costs, alongside an extension of eased telehealth and hospital-at-home rules. It also would impose new measures to fight the opioid crisis and prevent cuts in pay for doctors treating Medicare patients.
Hospitals and health care entities would have to publicly report their prices and limit price hikes to benchmarks set by the New Jersey under new legislation that’s meant to contain soaring medical costs.
A recent hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee showcased the rationale Republicans will use in pursuing significant Medicaid spending cuts.
In an ever-changing, tech-driven world, artificial intelligence systems are becoming increasingly pervasive each year. At the same time, lawmakers across the country and in Connecticut are looking to legislation as a way to regulate it, especially in the health care field.
Saturday marks the beginning of the seventh month that the University of Florida Health system has been out of network with United Healthcare.
That means nearly 75,000 people in Gainesville, Jacksonville and Central Florida are paying substantially higher costs to access medical care if they are insured by United.