In states with percent-of-charge-based fee regulations, hospital outpatient payments per surgical episode were 37 percent to 151 percent higher than the median of the study states with fixed-amount fee schedules.
The Better Care Reconciliation Act, which many medical groups say is neither better nor provides carecould come with side effects: the need for older Americans to work longer and save less for retirement.
Cities and municipalities have sometimes passed their own legislation when explicit federal updates to employment discrimination bans have not been created. Here's a quick primer.
A report from Blue Cross and Blue Shield indicates more than 1 out of 5 people insured by the company were prescribed an opioid painkiller at least once in 2015.