Enlarge / Intensive Care Unit nurse monitors patients in the ICU ward at Roseland Community Hospital on December 14, 2020, in Chicago, Illinois. (credit: Getty | Scott Olson) Illinois Representative Jonathan Carroll is scrapping his proposed legislation to make willfully unvaccinated people pay COVID-19 hospital bills out of pocket after he received violent threats that also […]
Enlarge / Biogen Inc. headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Biogen Inc. shares soared after its controversial Alzheimer’s disease therapy was approved by US regulators. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg ) Seniors throughout the US will see a hefty increase to their health care premiums next year thanks in large part to Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug, Aduhelm, which is […]
Google is dismantling its unified health care division Google Health as division head David Feinberg departs. But it won’t stop Big Tech’s quixotic quest to transform American healthcare. Read More
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Jonathan Kitchen) As the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged the country last year, the chief executive officers of 178 US healthcare companies saw their already lofty pay soar to even higher heights. Collectively, the 178 CEOs took home $3.2 billion in 2020, according to a new analysis by Axios. Their median pay […]
Enlarge / UnitedHealth Group Inc. headquarters stands in Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S., on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) Doctors and hospitals are condemning plans by UnitedHealthcare—the country’s largest health insurance company—to retroactively deny emergency medical care coverage to members if UHC decides the reason for the emergency medical care wasn’t actually an emergency. […]
Sharon Clark is able to get her life-sustaining cancer drug, Pomalyst—priced at more than $18,000 for a 28-day supply—only because of the generosity of patient assistance foundations. Clark, 57, a former insurance agent who lives in Bixby, Okla., had to stop working in 2015 and go on Social Security disability and Medicare after being diagnosed […]
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Our assignment to generate business better would be fueled by viewers just like you. Medical insurance companies might {} to present their clients estimated flat-rate prices for prescription medications and also disclose to the general public the negotiated costs they pay for medication, below an unforeseen new Trump government rule. The government said those demands, […]
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