Americans Are Not Setting Aside Money for Long-Term Care
A Center for Public Affairs Research poll reveals that an increasing number of people are not setting aside money for…
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Fla. To Require Medicaid To Provide Hepatitis C Drugs at an Earlier Stage in the Disease
Florida health officials are changing the state’s policy for administering costly but lifesaving hepatitis C medications to Medicaid patients. Previously,…
Calif. Fast Tracks Bill Allowing HIV-Positive People To Donate Organs
The Governor of California signed a bill, approved by the California legislature, to allow HIV-positive people to donate organs to…
Aimed Alliance in Pink Sheet Daily Discussing Limitations of Institution’s Multiple Myeloma Report
Aimed Alliance’s Director of Public Policy, Stacey L. Worthy, was featured in a Pink Sheet Daily article that discussed how…
A TX Health Insurance Company Asks for 60% Rate Increases in 2017
Recent federal filings show that a Texas health insurer has asked for 60 percent rate hikes for three popular HMO…
PulsePoint App Aims To Boost Seattle’s Bystander CPR Rate by Turning Ordinary Bystanders into First Responders
Medic One Foundation, in conjunction with the Seattle Fire Department, is introducing a new phone app that turns regular bystanders…
Independent Organization’s Methods for Calculating Drug Value Deserve More Scrutiny
By founding and funding the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), insurance companies have found a new way to…
Insurer will Drop Bronze Level Plans in Va. Beginning in 2017
Beginning in 2017, a health insurer’s subsidiary will stop selling bronze level plans on the Virginia marketplace, and current bronze…
After Years of Criticism, Calif. Health Insurance Company Finally Releases Executive Compensation Report
After years of criticism from consumer advocates over lack of transparency on executive compensation, a California health insurer has released…
Health Plans in Several States Seeking Large 2017 Premium Increases
Big health plans that have experienced losses in recent years are seeking large premium increases for individual plans sold through…