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Requiring hospitals to sell a package of facility and physician services would protect patients from out-of-network bills at in-network hospitals

Changes Needed to Address Out-of-Network Billing at Hospitals

Anesthesiologists, pathologists, radiologists, assistant surgeons out of network in about 10 percent of cases
The out-of-pocket costs for out-of-network care grew rapidly for privately insured Americans from 2012 to 2017

Patient Share of Out-of-Network Costs Rising

From 2012 to 2017, out-of-pocket costs nearly doubled for out-of-network hospital care
Federal health officials have unveiled plans to allow prescription drug imports from Canada and other foreign nations.

FDA to Allow States to Import Prescription Drugs From Other Countries

All imports would have to be FDA-approved, tested to ensure quality, relabeled to meet U.S. labeling requirements
Not all patients have access to new

Access to High-Cost Targeted Treatments Varies for Lung Cancer

Patients treated at a National Cancer Institute-designated center more likely to receive these drugs for lung cancer
Seven percent of persons with HIV infection report cost saving-related nonadherence to prescription medication

Cost Saving-Related Rx Nonadherence Found for 7 Percent With HIV

Persons nonadherent due to cost more likely to have visited ED, been hospitalized, not be virally suppressed
In 2018

U.S. Health Care Spending Up 4.6 Percent in 2018

Acceleration in overall growth driven by faster growth in private health insurance and Medicare
Retail prescription drug prices in the United States fell by 1 percent last year

Retail Prescription Drug Prices Fall for First Time in 45 Years

Decrease due to drops in generic drug prices and slow growth in the cost of brand-name medications
While affiliating with health systems may boost a rural hospital's financial viability

Services Affected by Rural Hospitals Joining Health Systems

Reductions seen in imaging, on-site obstetric services, on-site primary care
A new program to provide free HIV prevention drugs to people who cannot afford them because they do not have health insurance was announced Tuesday by the U.S. government.

New Federal Program Provides Free HIV Prevention Drugs to Uninsured

Expanding access to PrEP is key part of government's aim of ending nation's HIV epidemic by 2030
A prenatal and infancy nurse home visiting program is associated with reduced public benefit costs for low-income mothers and improved cognitive-related skills in their children

Infancy Nurse Visit Program May Reduce Public Benefit Costs

Cognitive-related skills improved for 18-year-old first-born children of nurse-visited mothers