Experts said the findings in a North Carolina state treasurer's report are significant because they suggest the federal government has failed to closely watch the billions of dollars in tax breaks for nonprofit hospitals.
The Department of Health and Human Services must immediately stop the 30% drug reimbursement cuts to hospitals in the 340B program, a federal judge has ruled. The order from judge Rudolph Contreras with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia rejects HHS' plan to wait until January 1, 2023, to restore the full outpatient drug payment rates to 340B hospitals. The
UnitedHealth Group may proceed with its proposal to acquire Change Healthcare, a federal district judge ruled yesterday. The Department of Justice, joined by Minnesota and New York, this year challenged the proposed merger, alleging that the $13 billion transaction would harm competition in commercial health insurance markets and in the market for a vital technology used to process claims and reduce health care costs
Almost three quarters of physicians, 74%, say they're unclear on what constitutes a life-threatening emergency that would allow a doctor to legally perform an abortion in states where it is otherwise banned, a new survey has found. The Sermo survey of more than 460 physicians uncovered a lot of uncertainty regarding the situational appropriateness of abortion services in the