by Jordana Choucair | Oct 14, 2022 | D.C. News
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order today urging federal officials to lower prescription costs. The order will require the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) to outline within 90 days how it will use new models of care and payment to cut...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 14, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
A Stateline article discusses how 12 states are experimenting with Medicaid programs that allow physicians to prescribe healthy meals to prevent and treat diet-related diseases. The article specifically highlights an Oregon program that partnered three hospitals with...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 14, 2022 | M&A
Kaufman Hall’s quarterly hospital mergers and acquisitions report showed that there were only 10 transactions announced in Q3. Of those, two hospitals were acquired by for-profit health systems, four were acquired by an academic institution or university, three were...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 14, 2022 | Mental Health
A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that most adolescents experienced negative events during the Covid-19 pandemic. Nearly three-quarters of high school students in the U.S. reported experiencing at least one adverse childhood...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 13, 2022 | Life Sciences
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it amended its emergency authorization of the bivalent COVID-19 boosters to include children between the ages of 5 and 11. The FDA’s decision grants Moderna’s request for authorization to administer its bivalent booster...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 13, 2022 | Payers
Willis Towers Watson’s 2023 Global Medical Trends Survey of health plans found that inflation could drive health benefit costs about 10 percent higher this year. Seventy-eight percent of the 257 insurers surveyed said it will be especially costly over the next three...
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