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Tiered health plans confuse physicians, patients

As part of the health industry's movement toward greater cost-consciousness, tiered and limited network health plans are on the rise and confusing patients and physicians alike. In Massachusetts,

Docs lobby against treatment costs in outcomes research

The American Medical Association (AMA) has begun to lobby against the mandates of a new research agency that was created as a result of the Affordable Care Act, reports The Hill's Healthwatch. The

Study: Cancer drugs shouldn't cost more than $20K per month

Of late, there's been a lot of discussion over the astronomical price of cancer drugs, some of which can hit $100,000 per year. Given that they only extend patients' lives a short while in most