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...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
New cancer diagnoses in the U.S. are expected to top 2 million for the first time in 2024, driven in large part by an alarming increase in cancers among younger Americans, according to new American Cancer Society (ACS) data. Colon cancer is now the deadliest type of...
by Jessica Casebolt | Mar 11, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Thirteen health systems are collaborating with high schools as part of a $250 million initiative to boost the health care workforce. Announced Wednesday, the new initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies will work with the public school systems in 10 urban and...
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