The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services' Healthy Opportunities Pilot Program (HOP) recently implemented the ability to verify member ...

The above is the title of a useful manual of Kenney and Keast (2024). Below I summarize some key points. Provide an overview of pharmacy contracts ...

The press release jointly released by the two senators' offices began: “As part of their continued work to address primary care challenges and reform physician ...

At a May 16 hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, experts argued for adding comprehensive dental coverage to Medicare ...

As part of Lyme Disease Awareness Month in May, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services launched the Lyme Innovation Initiative and LymeX Innovation ...

The Working Group on Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) says the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) should create an Office of National ...

Imagine facing the daily challenges of managing your chronic illness and then discovering that the medication vital to your well-being has a price out of your ...

According to a new RAND report, prices paid to hospitals during 2022 by employers and private insurers averaged 254 percent of what Medicare would have paid. ...

See my previous posts on negotiating IRA prices in drug selection (Part 1) and sending manufacturer data (Part 2). Today we will talk about the ...

An EHR Association working group has made recommendations on how social determinants of health (SDOH) data should be captured in electronic health records. ...

CMS launched Guidance on Negotiating IRA Prices last week. Below are some highlights on how medications will be selected. What medications are eligible ...

As a sexually transmitted infection (STI), syphilis is a public health threat in the United States and has reached crisis level. Syphilis cases in the United ...