Kaiser Health News
What has long been shrouded in darkness is now being thrown into the light.
As of Jan. 1, in the name of transparency, the Trump administration required that all hospitals post their list prices online.
Overall, Medicaid insurers in the Golden State made $5.4 billion in profits from 2014 to 2016, in part because the state paid higher rates during the inaugural years of the nation's Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
Billing data from Medicare and private insurance billing nationwide shows spending on urine screens and related genetic tests quadrupled from 2011 to 2014 to an estimated $8.5 billion a year
State markets are in charge of their own marketing and enrollment assistance programs, so are somewhat immune from Trump administration actions to undermine enrollment.
Officials said the $1.5 billion lost from 2005 through 2014 was a "conservative estimate" while patients paid $140 million in out-of-pocket costs.
Drug industry PACs can mobilize quickly to disperse funds to legislators ahead of impending legislative issues.
The new consumer-focused website compares hospice agencies with self-reported quality reporting which some experts say has limited utility.
The Texas physician is the president's choice for assistant secretary of health but Senate Democrats say Giroir's testimony left them skeptical that he would support women's health programs.
Following major price increases, use of the two cardiac medicines has dramatically decreased at 47 hospitals, according to new research.