by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 17, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
When Black patients see Black doctors, they are more likely to get preventative care, according to the National Institutes of Health. Sixty percent of African Americans have cardiovascular disease, according to the American Heart Association, but fewer than 3 percent...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 17, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
The Pentagon will allow service members up to three weeks of leave to travel for abortions and other noncovered reproductive health care,according to a slate of new policies announced on Thursday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin first announced in October that the...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 16, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Workforce hurdles such as personnel shortages were the top headache for community hospital CEOs in 2022, outweighing the longtime go-to of financial issues for a second consecutive year in the American College of Healthcare Executives’ latest annual survey. The...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 16, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
The advocacy group Better Medicare Alliance (BMA) launched a new effort Wednesday to persuade the Biden administration to overhaul a proposal it says will cut Medicare Advantage (MA) plan payments by 2.27 percent. BMA, which lobbies Congress and the federal government...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 16, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
Two federal panels of addiction experts on Wednesday unanimously recommended that Narcan, the overdose-reversing nasal spray, be made widely available without a prescription, a significant step in the effort to stem skyrocketing drug fatalities. Making Narcan an...
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