by Jordana Choucair | Jan 13, 2023 | Life Sciences
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a new legislative proposal that seeks to provide consumers more flexibility in buying prescription drugs and more information about their costs. The bill would specifically bar prescription benefit managers from forcing...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 13, 2023 | M&A
Kaufman Hall released its 2022 year-end report, showing that there were 17 hospital merger and acquisition deals announced during the fourth quarter of 2022. Of those, four are set to merge two billion-dollar organizations. In total, 53 deals were announced in 2022,...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 13, 2023 | Payers
The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommended yesterday that Congress should raise Medicare payment rates for hospitals and physicians next year. MedPAC advised that hospitals should get a 1 percent bump and doctors should see an increase of 50 percent...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 13, 2023 | Providers
Transcarent, an employee health care navigation company, is partnering with the Clinic by Cleveland Clinic, the hospital’s joint venture with telehealth company Amwell, to expand access to medical specialists. Through the partnership, Transcarent members will...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 13, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention
A new study found that U.S. cancer death rates have fallen by a third since 1991, with about 3.8 million deaths averted in that time. According to the study, there were “noteworthy” drops in mortality from leukemia, melanoma, and kidney cancers between 2016–2020,...
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