What We're Reading: Accidental Medicaid Enrollment; Cracking Down on Opioids; Passing on Drug Rebates
California accidentally signed up nearly half a million potentially ineligible people for Medicaid when the program expanded; Medicare's proposed opioid crackdown draws blowback from patients and providers; Aetna will also pass on drug rebates to consumers starting in 2019.
California Accidentally Signed Up Ineligible People for Medicaid
Nearly 500,000 people who may not have been eligible were accidentally signed up for Medicaid in California under the Affordable Care Act’s expansion of the program. A recent report found the state spent $1.15 billion on more than 366,000 ineligible and nearly 80,000 potentially ineligible expansion enrollees,
Medicare’s Opioid Crackdown Draws Blowback
A Medicare proposal to stop paying for long-term, high-dose prescriptions of painkillers has drawn criticism from patients with chronic pain, physicians, and experts in pain management and addiction medicine.
Aetna to Pass on Drug Rebates to Consumers
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