In a Senate Finance Committee hearing this past Tuesday, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) called on Congress and the administration to strengthen a key Medicare program that saves taxpayers millions of …
Health insurer Highmark Inc. and its affiliated hospital network will invest $11 million to further develop a laboratory meant to improve health care through science and engineering in conjunction with …
CMS has advised Congress of the following change to the Face-to-face rule set to go into effect on July 1st Due to concerns that some providers and suppliers may need …
UPMC could lose $1.2 billion in annual revenue in its contract fight with Highmark Health Services. With that kind of money at stake, why would Western Pennsylvania’s largest hospital network …
People get prescribed a lot of drugs. Then they usually don’t take them. Instead of throwing them away, what if they could get the drugs to people who need them? …
July 1st Medicare patients with diabetes will have to change how they get their diabetic testing supplies. That is when Medicare Part B will implement a national mail-order program. In …
The nation’s largest pension fund worked with Indianapolis-based health insurer WellPoint Inc. to cut medical costs 19 percent by capping the price of some surgeries, in the latest sign payers …
In a June 21 letter to the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Reps. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., and Bruce Braley, D-Iowa, call on the agency to investigate the possibility that …
