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Leap, Terry L., Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine: Health Care Fraud and What to do about It (Cornell University Press, 2011). Mahar, Maggie, Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much, HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 978-0-06-076533-0; Reid, T. R. (2009).
(The Center Square) – New laws go into effect in Illinois Jan. 1 that will put new restrictions on the state’s health insurance industry. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said the Healthcare Protection Act ...
Illinois state and federal lawmakers are looking into a way to lower prescription drug costs, ... the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services paid $2.64 billion to PBMs in 2021 ...
In this system, health care costs are first paid for by an allotment of money provided by the employer in an HSA or HRA. Once health care costs have used up this amount, the consumer pays for health care until the deductible is reached, after this point, it operates similar to a typical PPO. Once the out-of-pocket maximum is reached, the health ...
This distribution is relatively stable; in 2008, 31% went to hospital care, 21% to physician/clinical services, 10% to pharmaceuticals, 4% to dental, 6% to nursing homes, 3% to home health care, 3% for other retail products, 3% for government public health activities, 7% to administrative costs, 7% to investment, and 6% to other professional ...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports between January 2022 and January 2023, more than 4,200 drugs saw a price increase on average of more than 15%.
The Health Care Justice Act (HCJA) was a law in Illinois that sought "to insure that all residents have access to quality health care at costs that are affordable". [2] The Health Care Justice Campaign (a project of Campaign for Better Health Care) led public advocacy for the act, which was passed after a two-year fight and took effect on July 1, 2004.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Time to study up, Illinois. When the clock hits midnight on New Year’s Day, 293 new state laws will take effect. Those include some of the defining bills of the 2024 ...