by Jordana Choucair | May 23, 2022 | Payers
Oklahoma legislators on Friday approved plans to revamp the state’s Medicaid program into a value-based health care model that incentivizes providers to improve patient health. The plan includes some elements of the Medicaid managed care plan the Stitt...
by Jordana Choucair | May 23, 2022 | Providers
S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy unveiled a new report warning of burnout among the nation’s health care staff after more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The “Surgeon General’s Advisory Addressing Health Worker Burnout” projects a shortage of “3 million...
by Jordana Choucair | May 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
President Joe Biden told reporters that the current monkeypox outbreak was unlikely to cause a pandemic on the scale of COVID-19. The president said that the U.S. has enough smallpox vaccine stockpiled to deal with the outbreak, but that people should be cautious....
by Jordana Choucair | May 20, 2022 | Access & Coverage
Democrat lawmakers are hoping to strike a deal with Senator Manchin to renew enhanced health coverage subsidies — passed last March as part of Biden’s American Rescue Plan — as part of a reconciliation package. Maintaining the subsidies, which is projected to cost...
by Jordana Choucair | May 20, 2022 | Life Sciences
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended a booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11. The decision came hours after its independent vaccine advisory panel voted 11-1, with one abstention, to recommend the...
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