October 9th 2024
The 2024 increase is the same as last year's increase for family coverage. The foundation’s annual survey of employer health benefits also found that only 18% of large employers (200 employees are more) are covering the GLP-1 weight loss drugs.
Challengers of the Status Quo - Lower, Understandable Pricing In Generic Drugs
March 10th 2023Take a look into this month's cover story series of the companies, trends and ideas that are shaking things up and reshaping the contour of how healthcare is paid for and delivered. Below spotlights Alexander Oshmyansky, M.D., Ph.D, and his company he founded, Cost Plus Drug, also known as Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company.
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Is There an Alternative to the High-Deductible Health Plan? Glad You Asked.
February 14th 2023By cutting costs for employers and reducing or eliminating out-of-pocket costs for employees, alternative health plans are taking market share from traditional insurance. The plans say they can cut costs by steering members to high-value providers.
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Shedding Light on Healthcare’s Dark Arts
February 3rd 2023François de Brantes, a member of the Managed Healthcare Executive ® editorial advisory board and senior partner at High Value Care Incentives Advisory Group LLC, describes what he believes has caused a major inflection point in the management, delivery and payment of U.S. healthcare
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Personalized Solutions Boost - Medication Adherence
November 4th 2022“For the past 20 to 25 years, the data has fairly consistently shown that, overall, of people who have been prescribed long-term medications, about half of those patients are not going to take them as prescribed,” says Todd Ruppar, Ph.D., a professor in the College of Nursing at Rush University in Chicago.
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North Carolina: Medicaid Leader, Medicaid Laggard
September 22nd 2022North Carolina pioneered patient-centered medical homes and other ways of managing the healthcare of Medicaid beneficiaries. But it was one of the last states to contract with managed care organizations and hasn’t expanded Medicaid.
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The Healthcare Provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act
August 8th 2022Pharma, health insurers square off about the healthcare provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act that passed the Senate yesterday. The PhRMA was sharply critical of the provisions that would empower CMS to negotiate the prices of a selected number of drugs. AHIP praised the extension of more generous ACA premium subsidies.
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Why Vendor Payment Automation is Critical in Healthcare
July 25th 2022Automation not only eases the financial pressure these organizations are often under but requires less manpower, which helps overcome challenges associated with worker shortages, all while supporting a positive vendor relationship.
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