Health Headlines for Wednesday, June 13
Current state of New York’s health care plan outlined
Watertown Daily Times
New York state has been redesigning its health care program since 2015 as part of a five-year plan, known as Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment.
Study: Costs for employer sponsored insurance climbing again
WYMT
If you’re one of the majority of health-care consumers who purchase insurance through your employer, you know that premium increases and rising out-of-pocket costs aren’t confined to the health-care exchanges.
How America Got Hooked On A Deadly Drug
Kaiser Health News
Purdue Pharma left almost nothing to chance in its whirlwind marketing of its new painkiller OxyContin.
Medicare Takes Aim At Boomerang Hospitalizations Of Nursing Home Patients
Kaiser Health News
“Oh my God, we dropped her!” Sandra Snipes said she heard the nursing home aides yell as she fell to the floor. She landed on her right side where her hip had recently been replaced.
Report: N.Y. docs who got paid were more likely to prescribe opioids
Albany Times Union
A new study found that New York doctors who received speaking fees, gifts and meals from the makers of addictive opioid drugs in 2014 and 2015 prescribed more opioids than their peers who did not receive anything.
HHS Secretary Says Several Drug Companies Looking at ‘Substantial’ Price Cuts
Wall Street Journal
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Tuesday touted the administration’s plan to combat high drug prices, saying several drug companies are looking at “substantial and material” price cuts, while Democrats said the plan would accomplish little.