Healthcare Dive

JULY 29, 2022

The bill, part of a more than $300 billion package, extends enhanced ACA premiums and allows Medicare to negotiate select prescription drug prices starting in 2026.

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ACA Prescription Drug Pricing Medicare Medicare 261

Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In addition to highlighting the Patient’s Bill of Rights, NABIP’s keynotes and general sessions will speak to similar topics being brainstormed at VIVE this week — including mental health, maternal health, pharmacy and prescription drugs (pricing, PBMs), population health, and Medicare and Medicaid innovations.

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ACA Prescription Drug Pricing Health Insurance Hospitals 118

Health Populi

AUGUST 28, 2019

These two surveys are: The Morning Consult’s poll published today finding growing support among Democratic voters for Medicare for All as the centerpiece for health reform in America; and, A recent study from Eligibility.com on “Medicare Myths Explained,” with the tagline, “How much do you know about Medicare?”

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Medicare Medicare ACA Prescription Drug Pricing 99

Health Populi

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Pricing failure, the second big waste factor, is predominantly challenged by pharmaceutical/prescription drug pricing based on this research. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) forecasts that prescription drug spending will be the fastest-growing cause of rising health spending by 2027.

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Prescription Drug Pricing Medicare Medicare ACA 108

Health Populi

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The future of Medicare and Medicaid as well as access to mental health care also rank high among two-thirds of U.S. Stay tuned to IRA components addressing prescription drug costs, and Medicare and Medicaid status (provider payments for the former, state-level moves for the latter).

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Prescription Drug Pricing ACA COVID-19 Medicaid 87

Hall Render

JUNE 2, 2023

Health Care Trends Toward Progress in Hawai‘i Hawaii health system names COO IDAHO Cyberattack forces Idaho hospital to send ambulances elsewhere Idaho Free Clinics rally for Idahoans losing Medicaid Idaho hospitals hit by cyberattack, closed clinic National grant puts $600,000 toward Payette community’s health care needs Idaho Statewide HIE Changes (..)

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US Department of Health and Human Services Nursing Homes Nurses Hospitals 40

Health Populi

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In this case, I feel it’s important to capture the Zeitgeist of the Republican Party’s commitment to cutting down the ACA since President Trump took office in January 2017. In my 11 years of writing every one of over 2,000 Health Populi posts on this blog, I have never, ever mentioned the “f-word” here.

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