WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Washington health-care lobbyists may be in for some déjà vu as a long-running partisan clash over Medicare Advantage, the controversial private health insurance option for seniors, bubbles up again in ...
Congress is already bracing for an epic health-reform debate after a new president takes office. But lawmakers–and lobbyists–still have a big piece of unfinished health business for this year: paying doctors. On July 1, doctors face a 10.6% cut in ...
Whizbang computer systems are taken almost on faith as the solution to all sorts of ills in health care. Hold on, says the Congressional Budget Office, whose green-eyeshade-wearing analysts take a shot at that rosy savings estimate, and a similar one ...
Congress, apparently still with time left over after all those hearings dissing the drug industry, is beginning to turn up the heat on nursing homes. Today, the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on oversight and investigations took its first swing ...
With hospitals, doctors and nursing homes all getting the consumer-ratings treatment, it was inevitable that drugs would also get graded. Now Health Grades, already an arbiter of hospitals and nursing homes, has launched a drug-rating service. Unlike ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. Health care isn’t exactly known for its efficiency, but a new analysis from PricewaterhouseCoopers puts the value of the waste sloshing around in the system at a whopping $1.2 trillion a year. That’s ...
WSJ’s blog on health and the business of health. The FDA is going to put acting drug-center head Janet Woodcock in the post permanently, people with knowledge of the matter told the WSJ. Woodcock’s return to the job, which she’s held in an acting ...
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