by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 16, 2024 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
The Biden administration recently stated its opposition to gender-affirming surgery for minors, marking its clearest stance on the issue despite its strong support for transgender rights. The administration’s position emphasizes concerns about the lack of...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 16, 2024 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that all Americans aged 6 months and older receive the upcoming COVID-19 vaccines this fall amid a resurgence of infections across 39 states and territories. These vaccines are intended to provide...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 16, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Nineteen rural Minnesota hospitals and their 50-plus clinics have banded together to form a clinically integrated network (CIN) serving more than 750,000 people. The so-called Headwaters High-Value Network, announced Thursday, stitches the independent hospitals’...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 16, 2024 | Payers, Tea Leaves
A House committee overwhelmingly passed four bills on Thursday that would expand Medicare coverage of obesity drugs and cancer screening blood tests and place guardrails around Medicare’s discretion in covering drugs and devices approved by the Food and Drug...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 16, 2024 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
The Supreme Court decisively rejected Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy reorganization plan that aimed to shield the Sackler family from lawsuits related to the opioid crisis. The 5-4 decision sided with arguments that the Sacklers abused the bankruptcy process to...
by Jessica Casebolt | Jul 16, 2024 | Providers, Tea Leaves
For-profit hospitals received lower marks on “socially responsible” metrics compared to nonprofits in an annual index from the Lown Institute released on Tuesday. For-profit hospitals were overrepresented in the lowest quality rankings on the index, which measured...
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