Affordable Care Act, Healthcare Costs

Findings from Gibbins’ Annual Healthcare Bankruptcy Report

Holland & Knight LLP on 4/8/2024

In this episode of "Counsel That Cares," bankruptcy attorney Tyler Layne is joined by Gibbins Advisors managing directors Clare Moylan and Ron Winters to discuss their company's annual healthcare bankruptcy report. Their...more

Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - July 2022

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 7/21/2022

The 21st century American reality is if you get sick, really sick,you're in for a money nightmare on top of the emotional and physical toll of serious disease. Medical costs keep skyrocketing with no sign of easing....more

Biden-Harris Administration Issues Part I of Surprise Billing Rule

Morgan Lewis on 7/21/2021

The US Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the Departments) along with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued Requirements Related to Surprise Billing; Part I on July 1. ...more

Summer Reruns: ‘340B Contract Pharmacy Saga’ Back in the Spotlight as OGC Withdraws Advisory Opinion

Foley Hoag LLP - Medicaid and the Law on 6/25/2021

Like the Brood X cicadas emerging from their 17-year chthonic slumber, summer 2021 saw the reemergence of something else set to dominate headlines: 340B contract pharmacies. Given the link between the Medicaid drug rebate...more

Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - March 2021

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 3/11/2021

IN THIS ISSUE - As patients struggle with unreal prices, health reformers zero in on hospitals - Smart ways to negotiate a bill down - With public outcry rising on health costs, governments and employers are...more

Costs of COVID-19 Vaccines: What We Do and Don’t Yet Know

Proskauer - Minding Your Business on 1/8/2021

The roll-out of vaccine approvals has led to some confusion over what charges consumers might be asked to cover. This echoes the confusion previously discussed with respect to COVID-19 diagnostic and antibody test pricing....more

Better Healthcare Newsletter from Patrick Malone - October 2020

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 10/7/2020

Americans have struggled through multiple presidential terms with concerns that the rest of the industrialized world has already fixed: Is health care a right or a privilege? Must medical services come with crushing costs for...more

Hospital Price Transparency Rule Upheld

Rivkin Radler LLP on 6/24/2020

On June 23, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against the American Hospital Association and other associations and individual hospitals that had sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...more

[Webinar] COVID-19: The Road Ahead for Commercial Health Insurance - April 23rd, 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/10/2020

Examine the Evolving Challenges That Lie Ahead for Healthcare Stakeholders and State Regulators—and What You Can Do Now to Prepare and Protect Your Organization—at a New Manatt Webinar. Effective health insurance...more

Bipartisan Rx for America’s Healthcare: A Practical Path to Reform

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 3/9/2020

Tom Daschle, Cochair, Former Senate Majority Leader, Co-Founder, Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) - Andy Slavitt, Cochair, Senior Advisor, BPC, Former Acting Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - ...more

Colorado Hospitals and the Proposed Public Option: A Looming Challenge

Polsinelli on 11/27/2019

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) removed pre-existing condition barriers, defined a broad range of essential health benefits, and improved access to coverage and care for millions of people nationwide. However, the ACA has thus...more

Employers May Need to Provide Cost Data Under Proposed ACA Rules

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 11/26/2019

Employer-sponsored health plans and health insurers may be required to post online - and to provide participants upon request - a range of pricing and cost-sharing information beginning in 2021. Proposed Affordable Care...more

Hospital tries to stick ER nurse with $1 million in debt for her preemie’s care

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 11/11/2019

It’s the price and cost problem, stupid. That’s a fictitious but new tattoo that voters might want politicians to take up as they consider the many major problems with the American health care system, especially as yet more...more

Will Price Transparency Benefit Consumers or Facilitate Antitrust Violations?

Epstein Becker & Green on 10/31/2019

This past June, President Trump issued an Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First (“Order”), intending to increase price and quality transparency for American...more

Health insurance? It’s now about the price of a new car each year.

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 10/4/2019

Millions of Americans may sigh at Bertha, Barney, or Betty, or whatever they’ve nicknamed the beat-up family vehicle parked out front: “Wouldn’t it be great, if only we could afford a nicer, newer model?”...more

$14k to treat iron-poor blood? That’s rich. As is politicians’ health care frenzy.

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 8/6/2019

Iron poor blood? For many of a certain age, mere mention of that phrase conjures the major advertising campaigns of yore for a popular, over-the-counter nostrum called Geritol. The tonic is still around and sells for less...more

Waste, fraud, and abuse? For health insurers, fat profits matter more

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 7/26/2019

What happens when a whistle blower provides detailed information about a burly Texan — with convictions for felony theft and felony injury of a child — and a burgeoning scam to rip off health insurers for $25 million? Pretty...more

New Tool to Contain Employer Healthcare Costs

Jackson Walker on 7/12/2019

Healthcare coverage became an employer-offered benefit during World War II as the result of the federal government’s wage and price controls. Since that time, Medicare has become an important part of how healthcare is...more

Executive Order on Hospital Price Transparency May Prompt Disclosure of Negotiated Prices

McDermott Will & Emery on 6/28/2019

President Trump has issued an Executive Order instructing several federal agencies to begin rulemaking processes intended to increase the transparency of hospital pricing. Among other measures, the Executive Order directs the...more

Executive Order Seeks to Improve Consumer-Driven Healthcare

Proskauer - Employee Benefits & Executive... on 6/26/2019

On June 24, 2019, the President issued his Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare to Put Patients First. The Executive Order directs regulators to take action to improve healthcare...more

Congress and White House find a bipartisan target in medical bills and prices

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 5/30/2019

Doctors, hospitals, health insurers, and Big Pharma have become so abusive to patients with their billing and pricing that they may have accomplished what many consider a political impossibility ? angering Democrats and...more

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - May 2019 #3

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 5/15/2019

This week, all is quiet in the Senate as stakeholders await the release of the highly anticipated cost-containment package that is being developed by the HELP and Finance committees. While the details are not yet public – a...more

Cost of medical billing soars to half a trillion dollars—and half may be wasted

Patrick Malone & Associates P.C. | DC Injury... on 4/17/2019

When patients battle with the desperate extremes of a disease like a fast-spreading cancer, it isn’t just the radiation and chemo therapies that sap their spirits, there’s a demoralizing runner-up concern: The constant...more

ML Strategies Health Care Preview - April 2019

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints on 4/8/2019

This week, Congress is keeping its eye on drug pricing with a reported hearing in the House Ways & Means Committee. This comes on the heels of the full E&C Committee advancing six pieces of bipartisan legislation for full...more

The Risk Corridor is Closed: Insurers Seek Recourse in the Federal Circuit

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 8/13/2018

On July 30, 2018, two insurers – Moda Health Plan, Inc. (“Moda”) and Land of Lincoln Mutual Health Insurance Company – petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to reconsider the Court’s June 14, 2018...more

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