Ahead of a hearing on pharmacy benefit managers before the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability on Tuesday, PhRMA released Nephron Research that contends PBMs are driving up profits and drug prices through
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a policy statement warning pharmaceutical companies that make and sell brand-name drugs that they could face legal action if they improperly list patents in the FDA’s catalog of “Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations,” commonly known as the “Orange Book.” This policy has been endorsed by the U.S.
Erik Decker, vice president and CISO at Intermountain Health and chair of the Health Sector Council’s Cybersecurity Working Group, discusses the group’s collaboration with the U.S. government to support healthcare data security mandates.
When common medical procedures are performed in a hospital outpatient department (HOPD) rather than a doctor’s office, costs are substantially higher, according to a national analysis of tens of millions of claims.
Social isolation and loneliness among seniors has become a prevalent issue, so much so that the Elevance Health Public Policy Institute has issued a white paper showing that this trend can have negative impacts on seniors’ health, such as increasing the likelihood of depression, dementia, heart disease, stroke and even death.
Despite being able to be reimbursed for telehealth services at the higher facility rate for another year, providers are frequently billing for these virtual visits at a lower level-of-service code, Epic Research has found.
Security education and auditing can help healthcare organizations defend against insider data breaches, according to Dr. Eric Liederman, director of medical informatics at Kaiser Permanente.
Technology and IT has emerged as an important strategic priority for healthcare institutions, with a new Bain and Company report showing that providers are increasingly accelerating their spending on IT and software.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston have announced plans to collaborate on cancer care and build an independent, free-standing inpatient hospital for adult cancer patients.