Friday Five: Top 5 healthcare business news items from the MCOL Weekend edition
Every business day, MCOL posts feature stories making news on the
business of health care. Here are five we think are particularly
important for this week:
House Tax Bill Would Scrap Deduction For Medical Expenses
The tax bill unveiled by Republicans in the House on Thursday
would not, as had been rumored, eliminate the tax penalty for failure to
have health insurance. But it would eliminate a decades-old deduction
for people with very high medical costs.
Kaiser Health News
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Hospital groups to sue CMS over $1.6 billion cut to 340B program
Less than an hour after the CMS released the final rule,
America's Essential Hospitals, the American Hospital Association and the
Association of American Medical Colleges said they believe the agency
has overstepped its statutory authority by cutting 340B drug payments by
$1.6 billion, or 22.5% less than the average sales price.
Modern Healthcare
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Panel Recommends Opioid Solutions but Puts No Price Tag on Them
President Trump’s bipartisan commission on the opioid crisis made
dozens of final recommendations on Wednesday to combat a deadly
addiction epidemic, ranging from creating more drug courts to vastly
expanding access to medications that treat addiction, including in
jails.
The New York Times
Wednesday, November 1, 2017
U.S. states allege broad generic drug price-fixing collusion
A large group of U.S. states accused key players in the generic
drug industry of a broad price-fixing conspiracy, moving on Tuesday to
widen an earlier lawsuit to add many more drugmakers and medicines in an
action that sent some company shares tumbling.
Reuters
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Money For Health Law Navigators
Slashed — Except Where It’s Not
Despite all the efforts in Congress to repeal the health law this
summer and fall, the Affordable Care Act is still the law of the land.
People can start signing up for health insurance for 2018 starting Nov.
1. But the landscape for that law has changed a lot.
Kaiser Health News
Monday, October 30, 2017
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