January 22, 2026
(Wired) – A new EPIC report says data brokers, ad-tech surveillance, and ICE enforcement are among the factors leading to a “health privacy crisis” that is eroding trust and deterring people from seeking care. When immigration agents enter hospitals, and … Read More
January 22, 2026
(New York Times) – More than 300 Times Opinion readers responded to a January invitation to share their experience of rising health care costs. They included a cancer patient who shifted care mid-recovery to a new insurance plan that doesn’t … Read More
January 20, 2026
(NPR) – In May, Cole completed a several-months-long gene therapy treatment that helps reprogram the body’s stem cells to produce healthy red blood cells. She was one of the first Medicaid enrollees nationally to benefit from a new payment model … Read More
January 14, 2026
(WSJ via MSN) – UnitedHealth Group deployed aggressive tactics to collect payment-boosting diagnoses for its Medicare Advantage members, a Senate committee investigating the company’s practices said. In Medicare Advantage, the federal government pays insurers a lump sum to oversee medical … Read More
January 14, 2026
(New York Times) – That number could increase significantly as more consumers are faced with higher bills brought on by expiring premium subsidies. About 1.4 million fewer people have enrolled in Obamacare coverage this year in the face of soaring … Read More
January 13, 2026
(ProPublica) – A new lawsuit alleges that an insurer’s ghost network hindered New York City employees from accessing the mental health care they sought — and harmed the reputation of psychiatrists wrongly listed as being in-network. Shimrony and Calderón are … Read More
January 9, 2026
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 24, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
January 7, 2026
(Axios) – More than 40 million people globally turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, according to a report OpenAI has shared exclusively with Axios. Why it matters: Americans are turning to AI tools to navigate the notoriously complex and … Read More
January 5, 2026
(Church Leaders) – An Atlanta church is celebrating the holiday season with generosity by eliminating an estimated $1.5 million in medical debt for more than 1,000 Atlanta residents. Pastor Mark Moore of Spirit and Truth Church said that “the timing … Read More
January 5, 2026
(Axios) – If 2025 delivered shock waves to public health and federal health programs, this year promises more chaos as providers, payers, consumers and policymakers deal with the repercussions. Why it matters: The sweeping changes to Medicaid and the Affordable … Read More
December 31, 2025
(Market Watch) – Traditional Medicare in six states will soon feel more like privatized Medicare Advantage, using prior authorizations to determine what care can be covered for older adults. Starting in January, about 6.4 million Americans enrolled in traditional Medicare … Read More
December 30, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 22, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 24, 2025
(CBS News) – Last week, in a landmark settlement, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California Haywood Gilliam Jr. approved a preliminary agreement for the class action lawsuit requiring Aetna to cover fertility treatments for same-sex couples — … Read More
December 24, 2025
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (vol. 34, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 23, 2025
(NYT) – People over 65 represent prime targets for such medications. “The prevalence of obesity hovers around 40 percent” in older adults, as measured by body mass index, said Dr. John Batsis, a geriatrician and obesity specialist at the University … Read More
December 23, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Other families around the country have also recently had their access to the therapy challenged as state officials make deep cuts to Medicaid — the public health insurance that covers people with low incomes and disabilities. … Read More
December 23, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 20, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 22, 2025
(WSJ) – A Wall Street Journal analysis of Medicare data found one in six seniors enrolled in Medicare’s drug benefit were prescribed eight or more medications at the same time. Schmidt, who lives with her husband of 65 years in … Read More
December 19, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 19, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 16, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 393, no. 18, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
December 15, 2025
(The Guardian) – A little-known provision in the Affordable Care Act allows patients to ask state-run panels to review decisions made by health insurance providers. When insurance twice refused to cover a nearly $800,000-a-year drug that Paxton Pope’s doctor believed … Read More
December 12, 2025
(WSJ) – Companies are rolling out direct-to-patient services, which are selling drugs for weight loss and other uses Drugmakers are moving to sell their medicines directly to patients, abandoning the middlemen they have long relied on. The shift is a … Read More
December 10, 2025
(New York Times) – While I believe we should extend the subsidies, which expire at the end of the month, to help families pay their insurance premiums, doing so wouldn’t fix the underlying problem: surging health care spending. That’s the … Read More
December 9, 2025
(ProPublica) – The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital is the story of American health care. I began to focus on the relationship between Phoebe’s breakneck growth and the rates of chronic illnesses among Albany’s residents and wondered whether the … Read More
December 8, 2025
(WSJ) – Medicaid pays healthcare providers big bucks to diagnose and treat children with autism—sometimes tens of thousands of dollars a month for a single child. Yet states rarely verify that kids who are diagnosed actually meet the medical criteria … Read More
