The health insurer WellPoint has announced guidelines for using comparative effectiveness studies to pit drugs against one another and determine which works best, the Indianapolis Business Journal reports. “Congress has also approved $4.1 billion in the past 15 months to fund comparative-effectiveness studies and a new agency that specializes in them…

The Philadelphia Inquirer: “[M]ore than 200 area hospital administrators, doctors, nurses, and others met with national experts at the Union League in Center City to learn about strategies to reduce hospital readmissions in the five-county Philadelphia area…

The Decline Of Employer-Sponsored Coverage: Good, Bad Or Ugly? Kaiser Health News One of the latest criticisms of the new health overhaul law is that it will encourage employers to stop offering health insurance. In fact, it will. We should welcome this, provided the decline in employer coverage is gradual and good alternatives exist (Austin [...]

Approximately 165,000 people under the age of 65-more than one in five (22.8 percent) of Delaware’s non-elderly population-have a diagnosed pre-existing condition that could lead to a denial of coverage in the individual health insurance market, according to a report released today by the consumer health organization Families USA. They are among the 57…

On Wednesday, governors in Colorado and Oklahoma took action on measures related to reproductive health coverage. Summaries appear below. ~ Colorado: Gov…