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S1E23 Consolidation and Integration in Health Care
News reports across the country trumpet major mergers and consolidation involving health insurers, physician practices, pharmacy benefit managers, hospitals and health systems, and other providers,…
S1E22 Developments in Prescription Drug Pricing under the Second Trump Administration
Amid perennial public concern about the cost of prescription drugs, the Trump administration has undertaken a raft of efforts to push or persuade drug manufacturers to lower drug prices. These…
S1E21 How Will States Implement Medicaid Work Requirements?
President Trump signed into law in July a budget reconciliation package that mandates all adults who are eligible for Medicaid through the ACA expansion meet federal work and reporting requirements.…
S1E20 Understanding Fraud and Abuse in Medicaid
On Thursday, April 24, three experts joined Health Wonk Shop series moderator Larry Levitt in an hour-long discussion designed to unpack claims about fraud and abuse and put them in a larger context.…
S1E19 What’s Next for the Affordable Care Act?
Health coverage enrollment through the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces now exceeds 24 million people, a dramatic increase in recent years fueled largely by enhanced premium aid, which started…
S1E18 What the 2024 Election Could Mean for Health Coverage, Affordability, and the Budget
As the 2024 presidential election draws near, there are sharp differences in former President Trump’s and Vice President Harris’ records on health coverage and spending, including the Affordable Care…
S1E17 Beyond Chevron: How the Court’s Decision Will Change Health Policy Legislating and Rulemaking
The Supreme Court’s June 28 decision overturning the Chevron precedent that required federal courts to defer to reasonable agency decisions when federal law is unclear creates potential challenges…
S1E16 What’s Behind the Buzz about Site-Neutral Payments?
With Congress looking for ways to cut health care costs for patients and the Medicare program, one approach drawing bipartisan attention involves site-neutral payments for outpatient services. The…
S1E15 Primary Care Check Up: Why It Can Be Hard to Get an Appointment and How to Fix It
A panel of primary-care experts joined Larry Levitt, KFF’s executive vice president for health policy, for a discussion on the current state of primary care in the country, including the extent of…
S1E14 Prior Authorization in Health Insurance: A Needed Tool to Contain Costs or an Excessive Barrier to Needed Care?
Nearly 1 in 5 consumers with health insurance say their insurer delayed or denied care in the past year due to its requirements for prior authorization, a process through which insurers can require…
S1E13 The Health Care Workforce Under Pressure: Strikes, Shortages, and Staffing Requirements
Amid low unemployment and rising demand for services, today’s health care workforce is under pressure from several directions, including worker strikes; shortages of trained staff; and proposed new…
S1E12 Probing the Legal Arguments in the Drug Industry’s Challenges to Medicare Drug Price Negotiations
With the Biden administration’s announcement of the first 10 drugs to be negotiated for Medicare as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), an array of legal challenges from the pharmaceutical…
S1E11 New Weight Loss Drugs Raise Issues of Coverage, Cost, Access and Equity
New weight loss drugs, such as Novo Nordisk’s Ozempic and Wegovy (semaglutide) and Eli Lilly’s Mounjaro (tirzepatide), could be transformative for people who struggle with obesity and obesity-related…
S1E10 Probing the Power and Practices of Pharmacy Benefit Managers
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are increasingly scrutinized intermediaries in the U.S. health care system, negotiating discounts on prescription medications for health insurers and employers while…
S1E9 Medicaid Work Requirements
The idea of imposing work requirements in Medicaid is making a comeback in Congress and at the state level.Some House Republicans are pushing to include such a measure in any deal to raise the debt…
S1E8 Unpacking the Controversy Over Medicare Advantage
Medicare Advantage is the rapidly growing private plan alternative to traditional Medicare that provides coverage to approximately half of Medicare beneficiaries.Controversy has arisen over a Biden…
S1E7 What’s Next for Health Policy After the Election?
With the November midterm elections comes changes in Congress and state legislatures. While full election results remain in flux, there is the possibility of a shift from unified Democratic control…
S1E6 The Commercialization of COVID
The era of government-financed COVID tests, vaccines, and therapeutics is likely coming to an end soon. In August, the Administration announced that by January 2023, it expects to end its purchase…
S1E5 Health Care Inflation in the U.S.
As the 2022 mid-term elections approach, inflation and gas prices are on the top of voters’ minds. While health care prices have often risen faster than the rest of the economy, the prices for…
S1E4 Medication Abortion in a Post-Roe v. Wade America
Medication abortion, also known as medical abortion or abortion with pills, has been FDA-approved as safe and effective since 2000 for the termination of pregnancies through the first 10 weeks. Its…
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