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In its annual recommendations to Congress on Medicare policies, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission recommends a 3.25 percent update to inpatient and outpatient hospital payment rates for 2016, as well as repeal of the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) methodology for physician services.
Premera hack puts renewed focus on securing sensitive healthcare info.
Changing the bids could take as long as two years.
Actavis said the newly combined company, which will take on the Allergan name, is expected to net $23 billion in sales in 2015.
The acquisition gives Constellation a foothold in New York, New Jersey and Florida.
In a new customer experience survey, health insurers are just above the bottom, perhaps in part because the nature of the service and the industry's legacy. But some still came ahead with positive reviews.
A total of 16.4 million non-elderly adults have gained health insurance coverage since the Affordable Care Act became law five years ago this month, a "historic" reduction in the number of uninsured.
The nation's largest insurer may be setting a precedent with restrictions on a risky, though recently popular approach to the most common gynecological surgical procedure.
Clinics allegedly sought reimbursement for injection treatments, physical therapy treatments and other medical items and services not ordered by doctors.
Association finds 48 rural hospitals have closed since 2010, the majority in Southern states, and 283 others are in trouble.