Economics

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Former ACA Marketplace enrollee: ‘This is ridiculous—$1,200 and an $8,000 deductible for a healthy person. Really?’
A new KFF survey shows almost 10% of people who had an Obamacare Marketplace plan in 2025 decided to head into 2026 with no coverage at all. Another 28% re-enrolled but with a different—presumably lesser—plan.
Healthcare price transparency startup earns $40M in seed funding, bringing the total to $95M
San Diego-based Turquoise Health was founded in 2020 and has evolved to be a healthcare pricing engine used to develop health plan networks and contract rates. The company said its end goal is complete price transparency to make it easier for all organizations and patients to navigate the U.S. healthcare system.
EP advocacy group details 6 key policy issues
The Heart Rhythm Society's advocacy arm is monitoring such issues as prior authorization, outpatient payment policies and cancelled research funding.
Consolidation, competition, consumer costs: Healthcare econ experts break it all down, make it make sense
Market forces like competition cannot stem the urge to merge among and between payers and providers, so neither will they staunch the price hikes in premiums.
MGMA outlines path and pitfalls in CMS 2030 value-based care push
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) has tested nearly 40 APMs, of which only two turned out to be successful, which does not bode well for meeting a 2030 deadline to transition to value-based payments.

Versanis, founded in 2021 by a venture capital firm, is primarily known as the company behind the obesity drug bimagrumab.

The window to serve RP with the complaint was slated to expire July 13, with a judge prepared to dismiss the case if the action was not completed

The agency issued its solicitation as part of the recently released 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule.

Piur Imaging claims that its “Infinity” offering is the only vendor-neutral, tomographic 3D ultrasound solution on the market.

Imaging advocates blasted the proposal shortly after its release, saying it's "unconscionable that radiology is again on the chopping block."

Payment cuts in Medicare, rising costs and administrative burdens all are pushing providers to seek sales, the AMA said.

Both are making ample use of advanced-practice providers to handle procedures and other billable work, with a few notable differences.

Eyas Medical Imaging announced the first installation of its “groundbreaking” Ascent system in the NICU at Cincinnati Children’s.