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
March 27, 2025
(Axios) – Medical device makers, hospitals and other key health industries are pressing to gain exemptions under the Trump administration’s new tariff regime with the next and most aggressive actions to date due to be unveiled on April 2. Why … Read More
March 21, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine AI (vol. 2, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 20, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 8, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 14, 2025
(New York Times) – A new study found that fair prices for medications like Wegovy and Zepbound would be hundreds less per month than they are now. It’s easy to make a medical case for blockbuster weight loss drugs like … Read More
March 14, 2025
Journal of Medical Ethics (vol. 51, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 13, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 7, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 11, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Average monthly premiums for families with employer-provided health coverage in California’s private sector nearly doubled over the last 15 years, from just over $1,000 in 2008 to almost $2,000 in 2023, a KFF Health News analysis … Read More
March 11, 2025
(Rolling Stone) – Finally, on Dec. 9, a name was released. The primary suspect was Mangione. The details made public about the 26-year-old only exacerbated the frenzy around the crime. This was not a person living on the fringes of … Read More
March 10, 2025
(NBC News) – Changes this year to Tricare, the military’s health care program, have brought cascading disruptions to millions of service members, their families and network providers nationwide. About 16,000 health care providers on the East Coast alone have not … Read More
March 10, 2025
(KFF Health News) – Williams is one of nearly 3 million Americans who live in mostly rural counties that lack both health care and reliable high-speed internet, according to an analysis by KFF Health News, which showed that these people … Read More
March 10, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 2, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 10, 2025
Bioethics (vol. 39, no. 3, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 7, 2025
(NBC News) – Losing a baby late in pregnancy is more common in the South than in other regions of the United States, according to a new report given exclusively to NBC News. The difference is dramatic: Compared with other … Read More
March 7, 2025
HEC Forum (vol. 37, no. 1, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 6, 2025
(New York Times) – The state’s insurance regulator has demanded detailed information about patients and their medications, raising privacy concerns. Florida’s insurance regulator has demanded an unusually intrusive trove of data on millions of prescription drugs filled in the state … Read More
March 6, 2025
The New England Journal of Medicine (vol. 392, no. 6, 2025) is available online by subscription only. Articles include:
March 5, 2025
(New York Times) – Some commercially insured patients stand to save $150 per month on Wegovy, a popular obesity medication. Patients on Medicare and Medicaid are not eligible. Novo Nordisk will cut the price of its blockbuster weight loss medication … Read More
March 4, 2025
(KFF Health News) – The Justice Department’s years-long court battle to force UnitedHealth Group to return billions of dollars in alleged Medicare Advantage overpayments hit a major setback Monday when a special master ruled the government had failed to prove … Read More
March 3, 2025
(Axios) – Black and Hispanic people paid more in out-of-pocket costs for maternal care than Asian and white people with the same commercial insurance, a new study published in JAMA Health Forum found. Why it matters: Black mothers in the … Read More
