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High-Powered Committee Sets 3.4% Cost Growth Cap For Health Care Spending In Oregon

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An Oregon committee assigned to setting a statewide cap on the rise in health care spending has agreed to a number: 3.4%.

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Lynne Terry

Is Oregon Holding To A 3.4% Cap In Rising Medicaid Spending? Maybe Not.

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In the years following the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of Medicaid, state officials looked for innovative ways to cap rising health care costs as the expansion swelled the pool of low-income Oregon Health Plan patients needing care.

Thus emerged a magic number: 3.4%.

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Elon Glucklich

Sanders Targets Health Industry Profits. Are His Figures Right?

At the January Democratic debate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders zeroed in on the question of profits in the health care industry.

Under “Medicare for All,” he said, “we end the $100 billion a year that the health care industry makes.”

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Shefali Luthra

Oregon Will Tackle Health Care Costs Amid Grim Reality

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A daylong conference devoted to health care policy, coverage and care in Oregon this week ended with a discussion of the elephant in the room: the price of care.

The United States spends too much on health care, gets too little and throws billions away.

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Lynne Terry

The Air Ambulance Billed More Than His Surgeon Did For A Lung Transplant

Before his double lung transplant, Tom Saputo thought he had anticipated every possible outcome.

But after the surgery, he wasn’t prepared for the price of the 27-mile air ambulance flight to UCLA Medical Center — which cost more than the lifesaving operation itself.

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Anna Almendrala

A Million-Dollar Marketing Juggernaut Pushes 3D Mammograms

When Dr. Worta McCaskill-Stevens made an appointment for a mammogram last year, she expected a simple breast cancer screening ― not a heavy-handed sales pitch.

A receptionist asked if she wanted a free upgrade to a “3D mammogram,” or tomosynthesis.

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Liz Szabo

Oregon Moves To Control Skyrocketing Health Care Costs

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Oregon is taking its first steps to build a regulatory system it hopes will curb the incessant, rapid rise in health care costs.

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Christian Wihtol

Analysis: How Your Beloved Hospital Helps To Drive Up Health Care Costs

As voters fume about the high cost of health care, politicians have been targeting two well-deserved villains: pharmaceutical companies, whose prices have risen more than inflation, and ins

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Elisabeth Rosenthal

Why Some CEOs Figure ‘Medicare For All’ Is Good For Business

EASTON, Pa. — Walk into a big-box retailer such as Walmart or Michaels and you’re likely to see MCS Industries’ picture frames, decorative mirrors or kitschy wall décor.

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Phil Galewitz

Market Muscle: Study Uncovers Differences Between Medicare And Private Insurers

Private health insurance plans in 2017 paid more than twice what Medicare would have for those same health care services, says a sweeping new study from Rand Corp., a respected research organization.

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Shefali Luthra

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health care costs

High-Powered Committee Sets 3.4% Cost Growth Cap For Health Care Spending In Oregon

Is Oregon Holding To A 3.4% Cap In Rising Medicaid Spending? Maybe Not.

Sanders Targets Health Industry Profits. Are His Figures Right?

Oregon Will Tackle Health Care Costs Amid Grim Reality

The Air Ambulance Billed More Than His Surgeon Did For A Lung Transplant

A Million-Dollar Marketing Juggernaut Pushes 3D Mammograms

Oregon Moves To Control Skyrocketing Health Care Costs

Analysis: How Your Beloved Hospital Helps To Drive Up Health Care Costs

Why Some CEOs Figure ‘Medicare For All’ Is Good For Business

Market Muscle: Study Uncovers Differences Between Medicare And Private Insurers

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