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What We're Reading: Taxpayers Cover 70% of California's Healthcare Costs
What we're reading, September 2, 2016: California taxpayers will cover 70% of the state's healthcare costs in 2016; President Barack Obama supports recommendations to reform the Veterans Affairs healthcare system; and California is close to criminalizing undercover stings against Planned Parenthood.
California’s massive expansion of Medi-Cal, the state’s Medicaid program, has greatly increase the amount of healthcare spending costs that taxpayers shoulder. According to Kaiser Health News, taxpayers in California will cover 70% of the state’s healthcare spending, which amounts to $260 billion of $367 billion in 2016. Medi-Cal and Medicare account for roughly 47% of healthcare expenditures in California. Before the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the state’s healthcare system was mostly private.
President Barack Obama is supporting a congressional recommendation to reform healthcare through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The recommendation creates a veterans’ healthcare system that coordinates government and private care, reported Associated Press. The recommendation comes as part of an effort to overhaul VA healthcare after reports of long wait times for veterans seeking care.
California is close to making undercover stings against Planned Parenthood and other healthcare groups a crime, punishable by jail time. The California Senate has already approved the bill, which also has broad support in the assembly, according to The Washington Post. The Assembly passed an earlier version of the bill, and it is expected to pass the new one, too, which would send it on to the governor.
Real-World Study Reveals Key Insights into DLBCL Treatment Patterns, Outcomes
April 18th 2024A recent study offers valuable insights into the characteristics, treatment patterns, and outcomes of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) in patients across different lines of therapy, providing a look into the landscape of DLBCL management.
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Navigating Health Policy in an Election Year: Insights From Dr Dennis Scanlon
April 2nd 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with Dennis Scanlon, PhD, the editor in chief of The American Journal of Accountable Care®, about prior authorization, price transparency, the impact of health policy on the upcoming election, and more.
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Collecting SDOH Data Can Assess Risk of Medical Nonadherence, Improve HEI and Star Ratings
April 18th 2024At the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) 2024 annual meeting, a panel of presenters explored changes coming to Medicare that incorporate social determinants of health (SDOH) data to improve patient and health system outcomes.
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Exploring Medicare Advantage Prior Authorization Variations
March 26th 2024On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we're talking with the authors of a study published in the March 2024 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care® about their findings on variations in prior authorization use across Medicare Advantage plans.
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Prices for care at hospital trauma centers vary across hospitals; drug shortages reached a record high during the first quarter of 2024; although 3 of the biggest makers of asthma inhalers pledged to cap out-of-pocket costs for some US patients at $35, these do not apply to daily inhalers used by the youngest kids with asthma.
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Commonwealth Fund Report Details Pervasive Racial and Ethnic Disparities in US Health Care, Outcomes
April 18th 2024Using 25 health system performance indicators, the Commonwealth Fund 2024 State Health Disparities Report evaluated racial and ethnic disparities in health care and health outcomes both within and across US states and highlighted the urgent need for equitable health care policies and practices in the US.
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