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Trade group’s dispute with FDA highlights need to watch for report revisions
The nation’s clinical laboratories have pushed back hard against a proposal by U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October 2014…
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Debate over regulating lab-developed tests about to heat up
Sometime this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to issue guidance to clinical laboratories that produce lab-developed…
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ACA limits Medicare’s use of key value metric for drug prices
Health insurers are trying a wide variety of methods to link drug costs to the value medications deliver to patients.…
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Patient outcomes are among the most overlooked stories in health care
If you saw our November webcast on how consumers and payers can evaluate physician quality, you know that we began…
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Supreme Court case could affect states’ efforts to develop big-claims databases
Here’s a story that’s easy to overlook but could affect the future of health care cost and quality management. On…
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In new tip sheet, Chicago reporter suggests questions to ask about low hospital occupancy rates
For many years, health insurers have worked to keep patients out of hospitals, the costliest care setting. At the same…
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Atlanta journalist finds one series leads to another … and another … and another
Cover health care, or any beat, long enough and most journalists will discover that one story leads naturally to another.…
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Webcast to explore how consumers, payers and provider groups can evaluate physician quality
Next month, the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute (HCI3) will publish methodology that will allow consumers, health plans, provider organizations…
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N.J. officials ask attorney general to investigate Horizon’s new tiered insurance network
Hospital administrators in New Jersey have asked state officials to intervene in a disagreement over a proposed tiered network of…
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Calif. publishes better insurance price and quality data, but gaps remain
California has embraced the Affordable Care Act in big way. It launched one of the first and most robust state-run…