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The Inflation Reduction Act: The Impact of Medicare Negotiation of Prescription Drug Prices on Hospitals and Health Systems

Electronic Health Reporter

By Ken Perez, vice president of healthcare policy and government affairs, Omnicell, Inc. The article The Inflation Reduction Act: The Impact of Medicare Negotiation of Prescription Drug Prices on Hospitals and Health Systems appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. In August, H.R.

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Biden’s proposed HHS budget aims to make pandemic-era subsidies permanent

Healthcare Dive

Released Thursday, the budget also proposes to extend Medicare solvency and give the federal government more power to negotiate prescription drug prices.

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Addressing Lives and Livelihoods with a Whole-of-Government Approach – The First Wave of Biden Health Policy

Health Populi

President Biden’s first few days on the job gave us a very clear view on how he sees conquering COVID: through a whole-of-government approach to public policies that bolster directly addressing the virus, along with the many forces shaping how we got here and how to come out of the pandemic era stronger. ” The plotline goes….

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Health Enters the Presidential Race

Kaiser Health News

But Biden may be gathering momentum himself from an unexpected source: Drug industry lawsuits challenging his administration’s Medicare price negotiation plan could draw attention to Biden’s efforts to combat rising prescription drug prices, a major pocketbook issue for many voters.

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Supreme Court Clarifies that Subjective (Not Objective) Knowledge of Falsity of Claim Dictates False Claims Act Liability

Healthcare Law Blog

Background The FCA is a qui tam statute that imposes liability upon any person who, inter alia , knowingly submits a false claim to the government. The Court’s ruling was narrow and avoided the more challenging—and common—issues raised during oral argument (which we previously discussed here ). See 31 U.S.C.

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Democrats Didn’t Achieve All Their Goals, but Inflation Reduction Act Makes Historic Medicare Changes

Kaiser Health News

First, it would give the federal government the ability to negotiate prices of some drugs purchased by Medicare beneficiaries, a tool that has long been opposed by the drug industry. Never before have we been able to negotiate prescription drug prices. “It’s historic.

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Health Care Financing: How Inflation and Health Care Prices Could Hit the U.S. Consumer

Jane Sarashon

That’s represented by the lighter blue line in the first chart. middle-class households finding that health care has returned to the #1 household fiscal concern ahead of inflation in 2023.