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04/08/2018

How Trump's New Medicare Rules Boost Amazon And Walmart
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2018/04/05/how-trumps-new-medicare-rules-boost-amazon-and-walmart/

New rules allowing additional benefits and services from Medicare Advantage plans could boost new vendors to insurance companies like Amazon and Walmart.

03/30/2018

Walmart in early talks to buy Humana
http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/380944-walmart-in-early-acquisition-talks-with-humana-report

Walmart is reportedly in early talks to acquire health insurance company Humana, a move that could have huge implications for the retail giant while representing the latest major deal involving health care services.

03/28/2018

http://time.com/money/5212975/theres-a-major-medicare-change-taking-place-heres-everything-you-need-to-know/

The government is altering how 59 million Medicare recipients are identified.

03/15/2018

Attempts last year to repeal and replace the ACA ultimately did not pass. But, with last year’s tax reform and the recent budget talks, many health care provisions are in play. Anne Phelps, principal, U.S. Health Care Regulatory leader, Deloitte & Touche LLP, provides a temperature check on health...

03/13/2018

New Medicare cards are coming! Medicare is mailing new cards between April 2018 and April 2019. The new card has a Medicare Number unique to you, instead of ...

03/09/2018

Health insurer Cigna to buy Express Scripts for about $52 billion

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03/08/2018

Each day, you make important choices about your finances, health, privacy, and more. During National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW), March 4–8, 2018, non-profit organizations and government agenci…

03/03/2018

02/27/2018

Medicare Part D has been a success story so far, but a new provision could derail that achievement.

02/23/2018

The company offered a $1 million prize to improve its algorithm. Why not do that for risk adjustment?

02/19/2018

For those of us working in health policy, 2017 was a remarkable year. Not since 2009-10 has the general public been so interested in debates on how to improve the performance of the U.S. health care system. For me, not a dinner party went by without somebody sincerely asking about the details of par...

02/18/2018

On January 24, Chad E. Shearer, vice president for policy and director of UHF’s Medicaid Institute, spoke to medical students and faculty at Weill Cornell Medicine’s David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium about the past and future of the Medicaid program. His remarks are summarized below.