Medicare & Medicaid
The bill has bipartisan support to lift restrictions on Medicare coverage for telehealth.
Over 55% of hospitals will receive higher Medicare payments under the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program.
While optional Medicare for All is popular among voters, many are wary of breaking from the traditional private insurance system.
President Trump, who was supposedly trying to sabotage the ACA, has been better at running it than President Obama, who wrote the law, says HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
Most states would see diminished capacity in their health centers unless they're able to offset the financial shortfalls.
The FDA is also approving greater numbers of complex generic drugs, which are more difficult to replicate and traditionally lack competition.
Different states have different methods for identifying 340B drugs billed to programs, findings showed.
On average, physician-led ACOs produced almost 7 times the amount of Medicare savings per beneficiary than hospital-led ACOs.
The anticipated savings would increase in a scenario in which biosimilars made up a larger portion of the total market share.
The bonus pool size in 2018 was $6.3 billion, which goes to 4-star and above plans as $500 per member, per year.