by Jordana Choucair | Feb 4, 2022 | Providers
The Biden administration announced the availability of $19.2 million in grants to train primary care residents in rural and under-served communities, part of an effort to address physician shortages. The Health Resources and Services Administration funding will...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 4, 2022 | Payers
The Biden administration announced that Medicare will begin covering at-home COVID-19 tests in early spring for its 64 million beneficiaries. The CMS said people on Medicare will be able to get up to eight tests per month at select pharmacies and other locations, but...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 4, 2022 | Life Sciences
Eli Lilly and Co. pushed back its timeline to ask regulators to grant accelerated approval to its experimental Alzheimer’s disease drug. The drugmakers said approval would have little impact on its business this year given Medicare officials’ decision to...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 4, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
Yesterday, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) co-hosted a webinar examining persistent racial disparities in cancer care. A panel of oncologists, a patient advocate, and policy researchers discussed how inequities...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 4, 2022 | D.C. News
The Biden administration’s coffers are low for additional COVID-19 testing, treatments, and vaccines, with most money already committed or distributed from a roughly $350 billion federal program. While top officials stressed that they have the funding to meet...
by Jordana Choucair | Feb 4, 2022 | D.C. News
A broad group of senators is showing bipartisan support for legislation that would create a 12-person independent panel to investigate the origins of COVID-19 and the federal pandemic response across the Trump and Biden administrations. The bill, led by Senators Patty...
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