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 writers weigh plan to suspend Obamacare insurer tax
House Republican tax writers are considering delaying Obamacare's
health insurance tax for only limited markets next year, leaving out
small businesses and possibly private Medicaid plans, according to
sources on and off Capitol Hill. They would suspend it for all markets
in 2019.
Politico
Thursday, December 7, 2017
Hospitals Find Asthma Hot Spots More Profitable To Neglect Than
Fix
Months of reporting and rich hospital data portray life in the
worst asthma hot spot in one of the worst asthma cities: Baltimore. The
medical system knows how to help. But there’s no money in it.
Kaiser Health News
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Providers See CMS Continuing Value-Based Care Push Despite
Project Rollbacks
Though the Trump administration last week rolled back several
Obama-era projects designed to shift the U.S. health care system away
from fee-for-service care to models that pay doctors and hospitals based
on the quality of care, industry groups believe the government is likely
to continue with the push toward value-based care.
Morning Consult
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
States get big Medicaid savings from social services, outreach to
sickest patients
Some states have achieved dramatic savings in health care costs
for their sickest Medicaid patients by providing intensive one-on-one
assistance and social services that help the patients better address
their multiple, overlapping ailments.
USA Today
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
CVS likely wants FTC antitrust review, not Justice Department, of
Aetna deal
It is uncertain who in the U.S. government will carry out an
antitrust review of CVS Health Corp’s (CVS.N) deal to buy health insurer
Aetna Inc (AET.N), but the drugstore company is likely hoping the
potentially more lenient Federal Trade Commission gets the nod,
antitrust experts say.
Reuters
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
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