by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Colorado insurance officials announced Wednesday that despite their best efforts, they cannot keep troubled insurtech Friday Health Plans afloat and will instead liquidate the company on August 31. State officials put Friday Health Plans into receivership on June 21...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Health IT, Tea Leaves
An effort to get the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to pull a widely used prescription drug monitoring software package off the market is stoking a broader debate over how much technology is influencing opioid prescribing. The Center for U.S. Policy says Bamboo...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
In the past 10 years, there has been a dramatic shift in physician practice ownership as less than half of doctors now work in private practices, according to a new analysis. Between 2012 and 2022 the share of physicians working in private practices fell from 60...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) could remove PET scan restrictions to better determine whether patients qualify for new drugs and to shine a light on whether a drug is slowing cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. The...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 31, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday became the latest drugmaker to go to court to halt Medicare drug price negotiations established by the Inflation Reduction Act. The lawsuit increases the odds that negotiated prices won’t take effect on schedule, beginning in...
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