by Jordana Choucair | Jan 17, 2023 | Providers
Hospitals are reducing or omitting maternity services as they attempt to shed unprofitable business lines. Hospital administrators say closures are driven by low Medicaid reimbursement rates, staffing shortages and, in some cases, declining birth rates in areas the...
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...
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