Medical Record Apps Could Pose a Risk to Consumers
New consumer applications are trying to make your medical records more accessible through your smartphone. Since 2000, Americans have had…
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Local Health Plans Help Contain Cost-Growth
A recent brief published by the American Academy of Actuaries provides an analysis of the main drivers behind rising premiums…
Federal Agencies Walk Back Copay Coupon Protections
Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the 2020 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters…
FDA Issues Warning About Harmful Health Product
Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a consumer warning about a product marketed as a…
Health Care Stakeholders Identify Prior Authorization as Ripe for Reform
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Patients Over Paperwork Initiative in 2017, which seeks feedback from…
Attorneys General Warn that Proposed Changes to Non-Discrimination Rule Could Violate the ACA and Administrative Procedure Act
In a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 22 attorneys general (AGs) have condemned…
Rising Cost of Living Takes Priority Over Health Care for Most Americans
A report published this year by Enterprise Community Partners finds that housing costs and health care costs are frequently interconnected…
Medicare Patients Sue HHS to Recover Costs for Observation Care
On August 19, 2019, a trial over a controversial Medicare policy will begin in federal court in Hartford, CT. The…
Increased Insurer Participation in the Individual Market Benefits Consumers
While federal policymakers have spent years in heated debate over the future of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act…
Federal Regulators Fail to Provide Effective Oversight of Medicaid Managed Care Programs
Following news reports that Medicaid managed care contractors are not properly delivering care to patients, Sen. Casey from Pennsylvania has…