by Jessica Casebolt | May 20, 2024 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Senators Ted Cruz and Katie Britt announced Monday they are introducing legislation to protect legal access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) nationwide in the wake of an Alabama Supreme Court ruling that embryos created by the treatment are children. Cruz and Britt...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 17, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Nurse practitioners (NPs) have become integral in primary care, assuming tasks traditionally handled by doctors; however, a new trend sees NPs and physician assistants (PAs) increasingly entering specialty practices like cardiology and dermatology, expanding their...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 17, 2024 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Kansas has awarded new contracts in its more than $4 billion Medicaid managed care program to plans operated by incumbents UnitedHealth and Centene. CVS, however, was displaced by newcomer Healthy Blue, a plan majority owned by Elevance. Kansas’ Medicaid program,...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 17, 2024 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday unveiled a historic proposal to ease restrictions on marijuana, a rule that, if enacted, would also enable more research on its medicinal benefits. The proposal, first announced in April, would reclassify cannabis from a...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 17, 2024 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
The staggering cost of mental health inequity in the United States threatens to rise to a cumulative $14 trillion by 2040 if left unaddressed, according to a new analysis by Deloitte and the School of Global Health at Meharry Medical College. The U.S. currently spends...
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