Pharmacy
Many of the 1.25 million Americans who live with Type 1 diabetes cheered the effort as an important first step in their fight against soaring costs.
The findings suggest that the move by CMS to remove pain management from consideration will have little effect on hospital payments.
Best way to address these problems is to create greater transparency, and simplify the pricing structure, PRI says.
Scott Gottlieb and Gopal Khanna round out the most recent government hires to head the agencies most important to health IT.
Researchers found nearly a third of approvals from 2001 through 2010 had major safety issues years after they were widely available to patients.|
Health plans need stability, the former CMS leader says, to be able to offer high-quality and affordable coverage.
As analytics programs look for population data, some contracts are shifting accountability to drugmakers.
Covering treatment for the 35,000 of Louisiana's uninsured and Medicaid-dependent residents with hepatitis C would cost the state $764 million.
Leapfrog Group says 30 percent of hospitals fully meet the four criteria for bar code medication administration, though 74 percent meet the group's two CPOE criteria.
Assemblymember David Chiu (D-San Francisco) has introduced a bill that would strengthen intra-agency collaboration on drug cost-saving strategies.