Hospital Prices Just Got a Lot More Transparent. What Does This Mean for You?
There is disagreement whether new requirements for hospitals to post price information will curtail prices and create better-informed consumers.
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Bills Would Target Mergers Among Hospital Systems, Clinic Networks, Others
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The Oregon Health Authority wants the public to be able to weigh in on proposed mergers and acquisitions, a proposal that advocates support.
Seniors Face Crushing Drug Costs as Congress Stalls on Capping Medicare Out-Of-Pockets
Many Americans face high out-of-pocket costs for life-saving drugs but those on Medicare are often worse off: There's no cap on coinsurance costs once they hit $6,550 in drug spending.
How To Curb Cost Of Health Care? Lots Of Ideas, No Quick Fix
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The relentless rise of health care costs, which account for nearly one-fifith of the economy, is a bane to the country, but experts disagree about how to stem them to bring the United States in line with other industrialized countries, which spend far less on health care.
Kaiser Permanente Blasts 30% Price Hikes Sought By Salem Health
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The request comes at a time when the state is trying to curb health care costs but Salem Health says it is trying to make up for a lag in prices in the past.
Will Ceiling On Growth Of Health Care Costs Hurt Care?
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A panel that's developing a plan to curb runaway health care costs in Oregon discussed ways to ensure that quality of care won't be compromised and health disparities are reduced.
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%.
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%.
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.”
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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