Massachusetts Moves Forward to Implement ACOs
In Massachusetts, a panel of state officials and healthcare executives moved toward global payments by drafting a first-in-the-nation blueprint for scrapping current fee-forservice payments.
An Update on Specialty Drug Tiers
Specialty medications costing more than $600 per year are now classified under two new tiers of Medicare Part D drug benefit plan.
Healthcare Reform 2010: Federal and State Updates
Many questions remain unanswered about the healthcare reform recently enacted into law, but here’s what we do know.
FDA and EMEA Launch Good Clinical Practices Initiative
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency has launched a bilateral Good Clinical Practices Initiative, designed to ensure that clinical trials submitted in drug marketing applications in the United States and Europe are conducted uniformly, appropriately and ethically.
Insurance Reform Moves to the States
In addition to the new health insurance reform law, states are looking into some of the most important issues that affect patients’ access to care.
Health Insurance Reform Now Law
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the new healthcare reform legislation titled the Affordable Health Care for America Act.