January 12, 2024
(CBS News) – California and 17 other states don’t require private insurance plans to cover hearing aids for kids, so many don’t. But about two or three of every 1,000 babies in the U.S. are born with detectable hearing loss … Read More
January 11, 2024
(STAT News) – The abrupt transition from school-age support to limited adult services is aptly termed “the cliff.” I often wonder: What will happen to my daughter when I am too old to advocate for her? The good news for … Read More
January 11, 2024
January 10, 2024
January 9, 2024
(STAT News) – The origin of federal restrictions of anti-obesity medications has nothing to do with these current cost-benefit considerations, however: The Medicare and Medicaid policies are three-decade-old restrictions on weight-loss medication in general — a legislative legacy reflecting a … Read More
January 5, 2024
(Axios) – A rash of generic drug shortages across the United States can be partly explained by a somewhat counterintuitive and politically inconvenient factor: The prices are way too low. Why it matters: Proposals for addressing the complex factors driving … Read More
January 5, 2024
January 3, 2024
January 2, 2024
(CNN) – More Americans with diabetes will get a break on their insulin costs in 2024. Sanofi is joining the nation’s two other major insulin manufacturers in offering either price caps or savings programs that lower the cost of the … Read More
January 2, 2024
(Axios) – For all the frenzied speculation about how AI can transform health care, some companies are leveraging the technology for a decidedly simpler but still critical task: making shopping for health insurance less terrible. Why it matters: Many Americans … Read More
December 27, 2023
(New York Times) – The rate of serious medical complications increased in hospitals after they were purchased by private equity investment firms, according to a major study of the effects of such acquisitions on patient care in recent years. The … Read More
December 26, 2023
(NBC News) – Patients receiving care at hospitals owned by private-equity firms experience more bloodstream and surgical site infections and they fall more often, a new study by academics at Harvard University and the University of Chicago has found. The research, … Read More
December 20, 2023
(Axios) – The largest expansion of Medicare’s mental health services in a generation can provide a critical lifeline to America’s seniors — if enough providers sign up. Why it matters: Starting Jan. 1, some 400,000 marriage and family therapists and … Read More
December 20, 2023
December 19, 2023
(STAT News) – The Biden administration hasn’t said much about the three new health care counsels, beyond what’s in the initial press release. That announcement spelled out that the new officials will work on two specific areas: investigating private equity’s … Read More
December 15, 2023
(Reuters) – Twenty-eight healthcare companies, including CVS Health, are signing U.S. President Joe Biden’s voluntary commitments aimed at ensuring the safe development of artificial intelligence (AI), a White House official said on Thursday. The commitments by healthcare providers and payers … Read More
December 14, 2023
(New York Times) – Ms. Sato is one of thousands of fitness professionals who have sought out cadaver workshops to better understand anatomy and improve their teaching skills. Over the past two decades, at least a dozen dissection courses — … Read More
December 14, 2023
(National Post) – After 10 weeks in hospital, Quayle, a gregarious grandfather who put on his best silly act for his two grandkids, was in so much pain, unable to eat or walk, he opted for a medically assisted death … Read More
December 12, 2023
(ProPublica) – Four years ago, researchers warned the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that some doctors were overusing — potentially even abusing — invasive vascular procedures, increasing patients’ chances of complications, which include amputation or even death. They handed … Read More
December 11, 2023
(New York Times) – The Food and Drug Administration’s approval on Friday of two groundbreaking gene therapy treatments for sickle cell disease has brought a rare moment of hope and celebration to people with the agonizing blood disorder. But there … Read More
December 11, 2023
(Politico) – The Paweleks’ struggles are emblematic of the problems that beset mining communities where health systems have been disrupted and distorted by the industry’s booms and busts, creating ripple effects that make it harder for people to access care, … Read More
December 7, 2023
(STAT News) – Bariatric surgery is a major operation that, for the right patients, can ward off heart disease, diabetes and strokes. Bellevue, which serves a disproportionately poor and obese population, says the operations have saved many lives. But a … Read More
December 7, 2023
December 6, 2023
December 5, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – CVS Health , the nation’s largest drugstore chain, will move away from the complex formulas used to set the prices of the prescription drugs it sells, shifting to a simpler model that could upend how American … Read More
