by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Health care costs are expected to rise 7 percent next year as providers deal with higher expenses and seek rate increases during contract negotiations with insurers. The projection by PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PWC) Health Research Institute tops the...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
UnitedHealthcare will end out-of-pocket costs for its 24/7 Virtual Visits in some of its fully insured plans beginning July 1. The insurance giant revealed the change through a notice to its brokers about the new offering. According to the alert, the $0 cost for these...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
On Thursday, the Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) recommended that adults aged 60 and older get one of two respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccines this fall, making them the first shots against the disease to be authorized in the U.S. The Food and Drug...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Last year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) started using the area deprivation index (ADI) to adjust payment rates and quality incentives in some models to encourage participating providers to offer care to disadvantaged populations, but providers...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Recent study findings suggest that hospital consolidation is associated with a reduction of inpatient pediatric services during subsequent years, a new data point for policymakers weighing whether and how to rein in health systems’ consolidation of smaller provider...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 12, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Medicare Advantage (MA) beneficiaries given home-delivered meals in the four weeks after being discharged from a hospital were not only less likely to be readmitted within 30 days, they were also less likely to die, according to a study in JAMA Health Forum. The 2018...
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