February 29, 2024
(CBS News) – Proposed “personhood” laws getting a closer look after Alabama’s IVF ruling could vastly complicate reproductive care in some states that require insurance coverage of fertility treatments and drugs, by setting up potentially clashing mandates on what to … Read More
February 26, 2024
(ProPublica) – The report found that among people getting health care benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs, the rate of severe complications nearly doubled during that time, from about 93 per 10,000 hospitalizations in 2011 to just over 184 … Read More
February 22, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – What happens if you have to go off weight-loss drugs? It’s a growing concern for the millions of Americans taking medications including Wegovy, Zepbound or Ozempic. Employer-health plans are tightening requirements or dropping coverage. And manufacturers’ … Read More
February 22, 2024
(NPR) – Ratcliff, a quadriplegic who uses a ventilator, has lived at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since she was 13. She wants to leave, too. But not to the nursing home the hospital found for her in another state. … Read More
February 22, 2024
(PBS) – Fewer than 5 percent of adult patients with cancer enroll in a clinical trial, according to a 2019 study by the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Many must seek out treatments that may be far away, creating financial … Read More
February 21, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Across the U.S., parents are spending weeks and even months searching—at times without success—for Beyfortus, a new monoclonal antibody that promises to reduce drastically infants’ chances of serious illness from RSV. A bumpy rollout of the … Read More
February 20, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – A growing number of physicians say the value of a yearly physical depends in part on your age and health history, and that some young, healthy patients can afford to skip it. Some studies have suggested … Read More
February 19, 2024
(BBC) – Patients are facing delays stuck on hidden waiting lists that do not show up in the official figures in England, a BBC News investigation reveals. The published waiting list stands at 7.6 million – but the true scale … Read More
February 12, 2024
February 9, 2024
February 8, 2024
(New York Times) – New York City has poured tens of millions of dollars into a program to treat severely mentally ill people on the streets and in the subways for nearly a decade without ensuring that it was operating … Read More
February 7, 2024
(The Atlantic) – Already, seniors make up 26.6 percent of the people who have been prescribed these and other GLP-1 agonists, including Ozempic, since 2018, according to a report from Truveta, which draws data from a large network of health-care … Read More
February 6, 2024
(KFF Health News) – States are plowing billions of dollars into a high-stakes health care experiment that’s exploding around the country: using scarce public health insurance money to provide housing for the poorest and sickest Americans. California is going the … Read More
February 6, 2024
(The Atlantic) – One study found that, in 2020, the number of U.S. campaigns related to medical causes—about 200,000—was 25 times higher than the number of such campaigns on the site in 2011. More than 500 campaigns are currently dedicated … Read More
February 1, 2024
(Axios) – New Medicare drug pricing negotiations, which kick into high gear Thursday, for the first time will allow the federal government to tie a medicine’s price to how well it works compared with similar treatments. Why it matters: Other … Read More
January 30, 2024
(Axios) – There’s a notable gap in new federal rules requiring insurers to streamline decisions on whether they’ll cover treatments ordered by doctors: They don’t apply to drugs. Why it matters: Drugs account for a significant share of prior authorization … Read More
January 30, 2024
January 29, 2024
(Axios) – Some of America’s most challenging behavioral health care problems include a key disadvantage: They’re not very profitable to treat. Why it matters: Serious mental illness and addiction have a profound effect on families and communities, but their complexity … Read More
January 25, 2024
(Axios) – The big picture: Challenging economics for doctors, pharmacies and other providers coming out of the pandemic, as well as the proliferation of tech tools, are largely driving this surge in digital noise, experts say. (Read More)
January 23, 2024
(Associated Press) – New York City intends to wipe out more than $2 billion in medical debt for up to 500,000 residents, tackling a top cause of personal bankruptcy, Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday. The city is working with RIP … Read More
January 22, 2024
(New York Times) – Over a third of all health care costs go to administration. As the health care expert David Himmelstein put it in 2020, “The average American is paying more than $2,000 a year for useless bureaucracy.” All … Read More
January 19, 2024
(KFF Health News) – But with some 100 million people in the U.S. burdened by health care debt, medical collection cases still clog courtrooms across the country, researchers have found. In places like McAlester, a hospital’s debt collection machine can … Read More
January 17, 2024
(New York Times) – Diabetes has been on the rise around the world, and Latino communities in the United States have been especially hard hit. A lethal combination of genetics, poor access to health care, diets high in processed foods … Read More
January 16, 2024
(Wall Street Journal) – Medicare patients lining up to fill pricey prescriptions at the pharmacy counter this year will realize some good news: For the first time, there is a ceiling on how much they will pay in 2024 for … Read More
January 15, 2024
(STAT News) – The Pashai family of Dallas on Thursday got some good news, but not exactly the news they had spent the last month praying for. The Texas Medicaid program, after denying coverage for an initial consult to begin … Read More
