WASHINGTON – The Biden administration estimated Monday that it could collect as much as $4.7 billion from insurance companies with newer and tougher penalties for submitting improper charges on the taxpayers’ tab for Medicare Advantage care. Federal watchdogs have been sounding the alarm for years about questionable charges on the government’s private version of the …
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You may have heard of the face on Mars, now get ready for the bear on Mars! Last month, a NASA orbiter made out what appears to be the face of a cartoon-ish bear on the surface of the red planet. Today in health, the Biden administration took another step to improve access to contraception, …
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Minnesota House Democrats on Monday warned a merger between Fairview Health Services and Sanford Health could increase health care costs or lead to hospital and clinic closures. In November, Fairview and Sanford announced their intention to merge into one health care system run by Sanford’s current CEO Bill Gassen. The target date to complete the …
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February is National Wise Health Care Consumer Month, and it’s all about helping people make smart choices when it comes to their health care. What does it mean to be a wise health care consumer? In general, being a wise health care consumer means taking the time to learn about your insurance and medical care …
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Govt. Janet Mills has nominated Meg Garratt-Reed to be executive director of the new Office of Affordable Health Care. Meg Garratt-Reed has been nominated to lead the new Maine Office of Affordable Health care Photo Courtesy Garratt-Reed is currently director of the Office of the Health Insurance Marketplace at the Maine Department of Health and …
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By some measures, the Denver metro area has one of the most competitive hospital markets in the country. Large health systems duke it out every year for supremacy in the multibillion-dollar marketplace. But now, two of those heavyweight health systems — locally based UCHealth and Utah-based Intermountain Healthcare — have decided to … cooperate? The …
U of M leaders Myron Frans, senior vice president for finance and operations, and Dr. Jakub Tolar, dean of the University’s globally recognized medical school and vice president for clinical affairs, testified at the Jan. 30 joint hearing of the Minnesota House Commerce Finance & Policy and Health Finance & Policy committees. Frans and Tolar …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that the COVID-19 pandemic remains a “public health emergency of international concern” while acknowledging the outbreak has reached a “transition point.” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday relayed the findings from a recent report made by the International Health Regulations (IHR) Emergency Committee. “The WHO Director-General concurs …
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Although the introduction of disease-modifying treatments and implementation of newborn screening has undoubtedly changed the landscape for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), challenges remain to optimize diagnostic and treatment processes, explain the researchers of a new paper published in Frontiers in Neurology. As of September 2022, all but 2 states had implemented newborn screening programs, accounting …
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