Tag Archives: Health Policy
How Slowly Will We Grow?
Medicare’s New Physician Payment System
http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2016/04/medicare-s-new-physician-payment-system.html
Government and private-sector leaders have resolved to transform how physicians are paid in a way that holds them more accountable for the care they deliver.
http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/2016/rwjf428568
Thousands — even with insurance — flock to free downtown medical clinic
State’s doctors join suit over Dignity Health sterilization ban
California’s doctors are joining a legal challenge to the state’s largest owner of private hospitals over its refusal to allow women to have tubal ligations in its Catholic hospitals because of the church’s objections to sterilization. The 41,000-member California Medical Association said Wednesday that it wants to intervene in a lawsuit claiming Dignity Health’s policy violates state laws against sex discrimination and the corporate practice of medicine.
Huge health care price differences even within same area, by state
As Valeant’s CEO Apologizes, the Rest of the Industry Keeps Hiking Drug Prices
“It used to be the drug companies only took one price increase a year,” Dr. Steve Miller, chief medical officer at Express Scripts, a major drug-benefit manager, told the Times. “Now what they’re doing is taking multiple price increases multiple times a year.”
CMS finalizes 85 percent medical loss ratio for Medicaid private managed care plans
HENRY KOTULA 