Health Insurance Price Data: It’s Out There, But It’s Not For The Faint Of Heart
Health insurers are now posting their negotiated rates for medical services, but it could still be weeks before data firms put it into usable forms.
Health insurers are now posting their negotiated rates for medical services, but it could still be weeks before data firms put it into usable forms.
Fresh off the Federal Trade Commission’s successful challenges to four hospital mergers, the Biden administration’s new majority on the commission is primed to more aggressively combat consolidation in the health care industry than it has in past years.
Oregonians are increasingly paying a bigger share of their income for health care, the latest state report on health care costs shows.
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Te new board will address high prescription drug prices that are unaffordable to many and make up a large portion of state health spending.
With private equity funds acquiring gastoenterology practices, investment managers now control the financial decisions for many medical offices caring for patients with digestive ailments.
States like Oregon were watching as a Massachusetts health cost watchdog agency and a coalition of consumers, health systems, and insurers helped block a hospital expansion over fears it would drive up costs.
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The trade group representing Oregon hospitals says the state’s analysis is slanted and unfair.
Despite the Affordable Care Act's guarantees of free contraception coverage, obtaining the right product at no cost can be difficult.
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Prices also varied wildly from one hospital to another, which the state says underscores the importance of Oregon’s new cost-growth control program.
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Developing the initial list, which likely will be fine-tuned later, is another step in the process of trying to keep the annual growth in health care spending below 3.4%.