by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 27, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Payers should be keeping a close eye on developments in the drug pipeline for Alzheimer’s disease therapies—and how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) responds to those developments, according to a new report from Optum. The report...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 27, 2023 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) tapped 10 digital health innovators for their suicide prevention solutions as part of its $20 million Mission Daybreak grand challenge. The VA launched the multiphase challenge in May 2022, receiving more than 1,300 pitches for...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 27, 2023 | D.C. News, Tea Leaves
The federal government is moving to require doctors to evaluate patients in person before writing prescriptions for some controlled medications, such as Adderall and OxyContin. The Drug Enforcement Administration announced Friday that it is seeking to revert rule...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 24, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said this year’s flu shot provided “substantial protection” against the virus, majorly reducing the risk of hospitalization in those vaccinated. The CDC said in a release on Wednesday that the vaccine reduced the...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 24, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
A new Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) analysis is the latest to sound alarms over rural hospitals’ finances in the coming year, especially if those hospitals are operating in the 11 states that haven’t opted to expand Medicaid. KFF found median operating margins...
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