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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now requiring consumers who sign up for health insurance coverage during special enrollment periods to submit proof of eligibility, a move that the health insurance industry applauded.
Most of the people running for president say they want to do something about the rising cost of prescription drugs. But most of their proposals probably won't work because they don't address the dynamics behind these price increases.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed, in its new Medicare Advantage rate notice, to waive the bidding requirement for employers and union groups that offer retirement plans to their employees.
Republican Iowa Governor Terry Branstad has announced expanded Medicaid coverage for eligible residents in his state through a program he is calling Medicaid modernization.
MIT Sloan Professor Andrew Lo, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's David Weinstock, and MIT post-doctoral fellow Vahid Montazerhodjat have identified this as a time when breakthrough therapies for certain types of cancers, hepatitis C, and rare diseases exist but remain out of reach for many patients, due primarily to the prohibitive cost.
U.S. manufacturers of medical devices started 2016 with a windfall -- a two-year suspension of a controversial tax on their revenue.
Americans are divided about the idea of creating a single-payer government health insurance system, as Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has proposed, but support shrinks when negative arguments are highlighted and alternatives are presented, according to a poll released Thursday.
Republican Iowa Governor Terry Branstad has announced expanded Medicaid coverage for eligible residents in his state through a program he is calling Medicaid modernization.
McKesson, a healthcare services and information technology company, has released an online tool that provides information needed to identify purchase trends and evaluate the impact of price fluctuations.
Healthgrades, an online resource for information about physicians and hospitals, has named America's 50 and 100 Best Hospitals for 2016.