Generic HIV combination medications, such as tenofovir/lamivudine/dolutegravir (TDF/3TC/DTG), could be produced for as little as $ 59 per person per year. Achieving the 95-95-95 targets based on this cost could result each year in $ 26 billion being saved, 630,000 fewer new HIV infections and 240,000 fewer deaths, according to a recent study by Dr… Read More »
A former senior White House economist says coronavirus aid packages should make money available for home care, Medicare, and quarantine rooms in hotels to separate high-risk, elderly populations from younger members of the workforce. Thomas Philipson, who stood down last month as acting chairman of President Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers, said the key to… Read More »
In a new report published by the Brookings Institution, Matthew Fiedler, Ph.D. ’13 , a fellow in economic studies at the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, and Zirui Song, M.D. ’10, Ph.D. ’12, assistant professor of health care policy in the Blavatnik Institute at Harvard Medical School, estimate national health care spending for COVID-19 care and… Read More »
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CAlif) holds her weekly news conference on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C. September 12, 2019. Aurora Samperio | NurPhoto | Getty Images The House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a $ 1.4 trillion spending package that includes a provision prohibiting the sale of cigarettes, e-cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco… Read More »
Dive Brief: Utah has asked CMS to approve a Section 1115 demonstration waiver capping the growth rate of federal payments for its limited Medicaid expansion at the rate of medical inflation, rather than the usual (and much lower) rate of consumer price inflation. The formal request, filed Friday, asks CMS to pay the full 90%… Read More »
By ETIENNE DEFFARGES The official 2017 statistics from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) are out, and there are some good news: The annual growth rate of health care spending is slowing down, and is the lowest since 2013 at 3.9%—it was 4.3% for 2016 and 5.8% for 2015. The bad news… Read More »