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Mashup Score: 9Bringing Much-Needed Transparency and Accountability to Indigent Care Programs | The Heritage Foundation - 2 month(s) ago
Before the 20th century, medical care for the poor was primarily provided by private charities, often with a religious affiliation, or by hospitals and clinics funded by local governments. As hospitals evolved into the locus of medical care for the general population, charitable and publicly funded hospitals increasingly served more affluent patients as well. In response, those hospitals adopted financial strategies that effectively cross-subsidized the treatment of indigent patients with fees charged to patients who paid for their own care either directly or through insurance.
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Mashup Score: 39
(Bloomberg) — A cyberattack that has disrupted Change Healthcare’s computer networks for nearly a week is creating a growing administrative problem for pharmacies and health-care providers around the nation.Most Read from BloombergHow Much Wealth You Need to Join the Richest 1% Around the WorldApple to Wind Down Electric Car Effort After Decadelong OdysseySupreme Court Immunity Case Jeopardizes Trump Trial Pre-ElectionThis Is Where New Migrants Are Going When They Reach the USSingapore’s Riches
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Mashup Score: 11Experts say scale of Change cyberattack shows risk of centralized claims processing - 2 month(s) ago
The scale of the Change Healthcare cyberattack shows the risk of centralized claims processing, experts told STAT.
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Mashup Score: 10U.S. Launches Antitrust Investigation of UnitedHealth - 2 month(s) ago
Investigators from the Justice Department have been interviewing industry officials who compete with the healthcare giant.
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Mashup Score: 25Johnson & Johnson Case Signals Employee Drug Price Suits to Come - 2 month(s) ago
A novel lawsuit from an employee suing Johnson & Johnson Inc. for allegedly mismanaging drug benefits appears a harbinger of litigation to come against companies, especially those that rely on pharmaceutical industry middlemen to negotiate pricing and rebates.
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Mashup Score: 6Home | Community Oncology Conference - 2 month(s) ago
At the 2024 Community Oncology Conference, we’re celebrating the “community” in “community oncology” by showcasing the progress that practices, physicians,
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Mashup Score: 19
States are seeking congressional action because primary benefit manager routinely defy state regulatory agencies and public-health plans
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Mashup Score: 62
Pharmacies are still grappling with difficulties providing prescriptions Friday following a cyberattack against one of the nation’s largest health-care technology companies that began on Wednesday.
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Mashup Score: 2Oncologists Fight “Ludicrous” Restriction, as PBMs Complicate Issue - 3 month(s) ago
Nearly a year after medically integrated specialty pharmacies first faced a new legal restriction, oncologists and organizations are still fighting for reform.
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Mashup Score: 1Gang of Six Introduces Historic 340B “Discussion Draft” Legislation - 3 month(s) ago
On February 2, 2024, the “gang of six”—a bipartisan group of six senators who have traditionally championed reforms to the 340B program1 —introduced a discussion draft of a bill that would modify…
Source: www.jdsupra.comCategories: General Medicine News, Hem/OncsTweet
On #340B reform... "Limiting the number of contract pharmacies will reduce the opportunities for chain drug stores and #PBMs to abuse the program by skimming off revenue for themselves." https://t.co/DSmVDLRWng