May 6, 2025
(New York Times) – The company lent roughly $9 billion to practices affected by a vast cyberattack on its payment systems last year. Medical practices are now suing the health care colossus, saying it is pressuring them to repay funds. … Read More
May 2, 2025
(Medscape) – Much remains unknown about the harm linked to poor healthcare systems and lack of access to care. A survey of more than 10,000 individuals conducted by Michele Peters, PhD, senior researcher at the Nuffield Department of Population Health, … Read More
May 2, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Unexpected delays in billions of dollars of supplemental Medicaid payments have forced some hospitals across the country to cut costs including laying off staff and pausing payments to medical suppliers. Hospital associations in at least 10 … Read More
May 2, 2025
The Linacre Quarterly (vol. 92, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
May 1, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 14, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 30, 2025
BMC Medical Ethics has new articles available online. Articles include:
April 22, 2025
(The Atlantic) – Can an Alabama health clinic survive Musk’s “chainsaw for bureaucracy”? People called the clinic Cahaba, which was short for Cahaba Medical Care, a larger system that was managing to get doctors into some of the poorest, sickest, … Read More
April 21, 2025
(Axios) – Five years of legal battles over the Affordable Care Act’s preventative services mandate will come to a head at the Supreme Court on Monday, in a case that will decide if millions of Americans will continue to have … Read More
April 21, 2025
(Axios) – At least half a dozen states are weighing new restrictions aimed at limiting pharmacy benefit managers’ ability to influence drug prices, including prohibitions on steering business to affiliated pharmacies. Why it matters: With Congress gridlocked on PBM legislation, … Read More
April 21, 2025
American Journal of Law & Medicine (vol. 50, no. 3-4, 2024) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 18, 2025
(NPR) – Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was indicted on Thursday by a grand jury in Manhattan federal court. The charges include two counts of stalking, one firearms offense and murder through use … Read More
April 18, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 4, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 17, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 12, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 14, 2025
(ProPublica) – Reporting Highlights: Shortchanged: Blue Cross Louisiana OK’d mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay a hospital’s full bills. For some claims, it paid nothing. Exceptions: Blue Cross denied payments for thousands of procedures … Read More
April 11, 2025
Clinical Ethics (vol. 20, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 10, 2025
(New York Times) – Medicare spending on “skin substitutes” made of dried placenta has soared as doctors pocket lucrative discounts from sellers. Made of dried bits of placenta, the paper-thin patches cover stubborn wounds and can cost thousands of dollars … Read More
April 10, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 11, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
April 9, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Greene County residents are some of the sickest in the nation, ranking near the top for rates of stroke, obesity, and high blood pressure, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. … Read More
April 9, 2025
(Axios) – More than 20 bills focused on menopause care have been introduced across at least 13 states so far this year. Why it matters: Menopause education isn’t just having a moment. Changes that could permanently reshape insurance coverage and … Read More
April 4, 2025
(NPR) – Underscoring the massive scale of America’s medical debt problem, a nonprofit has struck a deal to pay off old medical bills for an estimated 20 million people. New York-based Undue Medical Debt, which buys patient debt, is paying … Read More
April 1, 2025
(Axios) – The Supreme Court on Wednesday is due to hear a high-profile case blending patients’ rights with reproductive care access, stemming from South Carolina’s move to block Medicaid recipients from getting care at Planned Parenthood clinics in the state. … Read More
March 31, 2025
(KFF Health News) – The insurance industry provides little information about how often prior authorization is used. Transparency requirements established by the federal government to shed light on the use of prior authorization by private insurers haven’t been broadly enforced, … Read More
March 31, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 9, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 28, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Millions of Americans rely on physical and occupational therapists to regain strength and motor skills after operations, diseases, and injuries. But recoveries are routinely stymied by a widespread constraint in health insurance policies: rigid caps on … Read More
March 27, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – When recipients signed up in two states at once, insurers often got paid by both; ‘it definitely is wasteful’ Health insurers got double-paid by the Medicaid system for the coverage of hundreds of thousands of patients … Read More
