…and free care. The community health centers are a prime model for how all 340B providers should operate: through a patient-centered 340B program. This kind of accountability would be sufficient…

…He adds . . . “To do so would be really just a clear handout to the private insurance industry.” David Lipschutz, associate director of the Center for Medicare Advocacy,…

…2022 law that created the CA board. The MN bill almost became law, and was watered down at the last minute. We suspect that the agency that was created by…

…November election approached and voting-by-mail became an issue, leading to several lawsuits against the Postal Service, service performance struggled to return to the pre-DeJoy averages. Then in mid-November, performance scores dropped even…

…with health insurers or partner with them by taking on full or substantial control of the individual patient premium. After partnering with Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, things went…

…on quality criteria, but on cost criteria. They’re just looking for the lowest costs in town. We also have data showing MA plans often don’t include academic cancer centers in…

…the Niskanen Center (center-right think tank adds) . . . “Employers are hiring as if there’s a relatively weak labor market, not a strong one.” The downshift in hiring has…

…1994 to 2000. According to the latest report by the Office of the Actuary within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Minnesota’s per capita spending has remained about…

…epicenter of infuriating and unexplained mail disruptions in mid-March, when a breakdown in mail processing at one of the United States Postal Service’s huge sorting and delivery centers left consumers…

…in directing me on how to work with the VA for these issues. The only thing I can not beat is the purposeful understaffing at one VA center where I…