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| "The premium stability on tap for 2019 is primarily because insurers overshot with their premium increases for this year, reacting to an environment of tremendous uncertainty." | ||
| -Larry Levitt, Kaiser Family Foundation |
| Medicare will
dock payments to 2,599 hospitals throughout fiscal year 2019,
which begins Oct. 1. The harshest penalty is 3 percent lower
reimbursements for every Medicare patient discharged in fiscal
year 2019. The number of hospitals and the average penalty — 0.7
percent of each payment — are almost the same as last year. But
penalties against safety-net hospitals will drop by a fourth on
average from last year. Source: Medicare Eases Readmission Penalties Against Safety-Net Hospitals, Kaiser Health News |
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report by Business Insider, Amazon's acquisition of digital
pharmacy startup PillPack could just be the first step in the
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