Screws Tighten on 340B Program

http://healthleadersmedia.com/content.cfm?topic=HEP&content_id=324594##

Medicine and Dollars

A MedPAC recommendation to reduce by 10% Medicare payment rates for 340B hospitals’ separately payable Part B drugs has been greeted with a chorus of boos from hospital trade associations.

Medicare Part D’s Importance Extends Far Beyond The Drug Benefit It Provides

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2016/01/15/medicare-part-ds-importance-extends-far-beyond-the-drug-benefit-it-provides/

Blog_MedicarePartD

Experts predict reimbursement changes for 2016

http://managedhealthcareexecutive.modernmedicine.com/managed-healthcare-executive/news/experts-predict-reimbursement-changes-2016

cyber_security

Reflections from Health Republic’s top exec as business winds down

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/blog/health-care-inc/2015/12/reflections-from-health-republics-top-exec-as.html?ana=e_ptl_hc&u=FAuoHGaGEPdmk4X6khnaiw045b16af&t=1450463409

Going Out of Business

Health Affairs Web First: Access To Care In The US Rose 3.4 Percentage Points Since ACA Implementation

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/12/16/health-affairs-web-first-access-to-care-in-the-us-rose-3-4-percentage-points-since-aca-implementation/

Blog_Elsewhere_HA_book

Implementation Of The Biosimilars Provisions Of The ACA — Where Are We Now?

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/12/14/implementation-of-the-biosimilars-provisions-of-the-aca-where-are-we-now/

Blog_MedicalResearch

CMS Penalizes 758 Hospitals Over Hospital-Acquired Conditions

http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2015/12/11/cms-penalizes-758-hospitals-over-hospital-acquired-conditions

How Safe is Your Hospital

340B will go through big transition in 2016

http://www.fiercehealthfinance.com/story/340b-will-go-through-big-transition-2016/2015-12-07?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonvqjKce%252FhmjTEU5z14ukkX6a2lMI%252F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ARMBjN6%252BTFAwTG5toziV8R7LMKM1ty9MQWxTk

HRSA’s authority to oversee the program is being challenged