by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 22, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
The dropoff in cancer screenings during the pandemic didn’t result in significantly more breast, cervical, and colon cancer cases, or how advanced those cases were, according to a review of nearly 375,000 diagnoses in electronic health records. The findings from...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 22, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Medicare Advantage growth slowed for the 2023 plan year, according to a report published by the Chartis Group. Enrollment increased 5.5 percent for this year, down from a record 9 percent the prior year. The study indicates that the trend is driven by California and a...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 22, 2023 | M&A, Tea Leaves
Amazon has closed its $3.9 billion deal to acquire primary care company One Medical. The announcement comes after the Federal Trade Commission declined to block the deal between the two companies after a five-month review that began in September. One Medical...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 22, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
Black and Hispanic veterans’ access to specialty health care declined during the pandemic, according to a recently published study that also found non-Hispanic white veterans were largely unaffected. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 21, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
Deaths in state and federal prisons across America rose nearly 50 percent during the first year of the pandemic, and in six states, they more than doubled, according to the first comprehensive data on prison fatalities in the era of COVID-19. The tremendous jump in...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 21, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
The United Network for Organ Sharing, the nonprofit managing the country’s organ transplant system, is pushing for policy changes to make the transportation of organ donations more seamless. Interim CEO Maureen McBride wants organ transit via commercial air to revert...
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