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“Instead of adhering to Congress’s original intent, the administration back-tracked on limiting out-of-network payments to reasonable market-driven rates.”
Surprise Billing Rule Gets New Rules for Working Out Disputes
Axios | Tina Reed, Adriel Bettelheim | August 22, 2022
“Average costs for U.S. employers that pay for their employees’ healthcare will rise by 6.5% in 2023…. Costs per employee will be $13,800, up from $13,020 in 2022.”
Healthcare Costs for Employers to Rise 6.5% in 2023, Aon Report Predicts
Medcity News | Marissa Plescia | August 21, 2022
“The sweeping climate, tax and health care bill sets aside $70 billion over the next three years to keep out-of-pocket premium costs low for roughly 13 million people….”
Biden Bill to Help Millions Escape Higher Health Care Costs
Associated Press | Amanda Seitz | August 19, 2022
“The CDC, which has a $12 billion budget and more than 11,000 employees, has faced fierce criticism….”
CDC, Amid Criticism for COVID-19 Response, Plans Reorganization as Public Health Threats Grow
Healthcare Dive | Rebecca Pifer | August 18, 2022
“…nonprofit healthcare faces a difficult operating environment amid mounting pressures from both inflation and more expensive labor.”
Outlook for Nonprofit Hospitals is ‘Deteriorating,’ Fitch Says
Healthcare Dive | Samantha Liss | August 17, 2022
“The Inflation Reduction Act is law. But that doesn’t mean major health care interests are done testing their lobbying clout.”
Congress Isn’t Done With Messy Health Care Fights
Axios | Victoria Knight | August 17, 2022
“The pharma industry spent heavily to lobby against the bill and, after decades of forestalling action to curtail the industry’s pricing power in the U.S., its main lobbying group signaled the fight would continue.”
Pharma Prepares to Continue Fight as Drug Pricing Bill Passes House
Healthcare Dive | Christopher Newman | August 16, 2022
“The country’s biggest insurers took in $620.6 billion in revenue, much of it from taxpayers.”
A CLOSER LOOK: The Mid Year Earnings of 7 Big For-Profit Insurance Companies
Wendell Potter Now | Wendell Potter | August 16, 2022 |
“The lessons we thought we’d learned with COVID haven’t made as much of a difference as we would have liked.”
The COVID Lessons the U.S. Still Needs to Learn to Tackle Monkeypox
PBS | Laura Santhanam | August 15, 2022
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