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Drugs: Deal or No Deal
The only government program that I can think of that did not authorize price negotiations for prescription medications was the Medicare Part D...
NJ Passes Legislation to Mirror Some Medicare Regulations
Extending some of the recent prescription caps and data transparency requirements under the new Medicare payment rules, NJ has followed suit to...
Moral Injuries
If you are an avid reader of our newsletter or blogs, you know that we focus on payment integrity, program integrity, fraud waste and abuse, and...
Healthcare: Tipping Culture
Are you tired of tipping the "obligatory" 20%? I believe everyone (companies and people) should get paid what they deserve. I often...
Is Ozempic the new Solaraze?
For those that remember Solaraze, it is one of the name brands for Diclofenac. Diclofenac is commonly known today as Voltaren. In 2018, the OIG...
Overseas Observations: US Healthcare vs Abroad
The past year has given me a chance to travel internationally several times – once to the Caribbean and multiple times to England and France. This...
Are Your Healthcare Records Following You & Is That a Good Thing?
For quite some time, I have been concerned that my healthcare records, more commonly known as Personal Health Information (PHI), are following me...
Some Private Companies Charge Hefty Fees to Help Veterans With Disability Claims
When Glenn Janssen decided to file a claim for disability benefits with the Veterans Affairs Department last year, he dreaded the prospect of...
States Step In as Telehealth and Clinic Patients Get Blindsided by Hospital Fees
When Brittany Tesso’s then-3-year-old son, Roman, needed an evaluation for speech therapy in 2021, his pediatrician referred him to Children’s...
Montana May Require Insurers to Cover Monitoring Devices for Diabetes
In between sets of tumbling warmups, Adrienne Prashar crossed the gym to where she had stashed her diabetes supplies and tested her blood sugar....
States Try to Obscure Execution Details as Drugmakers Hinder Lethal Injection
In 2011, Jeffrey Motts was executed in South Carolina. More than a decade later, the state hasn’t carried out another execution because officials...
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