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STAT+: Medicare wants to increase payments for heart rehab. Hospitals see an opening to get more

STAT

Some members of Congress and health care experts are pushing for a system that would not pay hospital outpatient departments more for identical services that are provided in lower-priced physician offices. Naturally, hospitals cheered regulators for increasing payments. But they don’t want the government to stop there.

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STAT+: House panel takes first steps toward reining in hospitals with ‘site-neutral’ changes

STAT

WASHINGTON — A key House panel on Wednesday advanced several health care bills on Wednesday, including its first step toward a controversial effort to equalize Medicare payments between hospitals and physician offices.

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340B program continues to drive shift in care to more expensive hospital settings

PhRMA

In this case, the Berkeley Research Group (BRG) found that nearly 36% of all Medicare Part B therapy sales occurred at 340B hospitals in 2021 , up nearly 17 percentage points since 2012, meaning care is moving from physician offices and non-340B hospitals to 340B hospitals.

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STAT+: HCA discloses massive data breach affecting 11 million patients

STAT

The list of affected sites includes about 1,400 hospitals and physician offices across 20 states. -based HCA, which operates more than 180 hospitals, said the compromised information includes patients’ names, email addresses, and service locations, but the company does not believe it includes clinical or payment information.

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Drug Channels News Roundup, August 2023: Maximizer Problems, Hospital vs. MD Reimbursement, Bureaucracy vs. Costs, And My Favorite Chart Updated

Drug Channels

Time to pack away your bathing suit, send the kids back to school, and cherish these curated curiosities that I combed from the Jersey Shore: Fresh evidence of patients’ copay maximizer pain How payers pay more to hospitals than to physician offices Surprise?

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Pharmacist Job Market in 2021: Retail Pharmacy Slump, Hospital Boom

Drug Channels

What’s more, average base salaries for retail pharmacists dropped for the second year, while salaries continued to rise for pharmacists employed by hospitals, physician offices, and other non-retail settings. As a result, the share of pharmacists who work in non-retail practice settings reached a new high.

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Strep & Flu Testing at the Pharmacy

Digital Pharmacist

It has been estimated that more than 78 million visits to the physician office over a 10 year period are for acute pharyngitis, and among those 15% to 30% of cases originated from Group A Streptococcus (GAS) and 2% from Influenza. Benefits for Customers. This also leads to great pharmacist and patient relationships being established.