by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 21, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
A new report from Millennium Health shows that nearly every person that tested positive for fentanyl last year also had signs of other substances, and more than 43 percent of fentanyl-positive tests were positive for up to three additional drugs, including...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 21, 2023 | D.C. News, Tea Leaves
Two House committees, and potentially several more, are getting involved in investigating the origins of COVID, setting them up for a lot of overlap and even friction. What comes out of these COVID-origin investigations could have implications for federal funding of...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 17, 2023 | Payers, Tea Leaves
Medicare Advantage and Medicare drug plans told the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) that too much regulation at once could drive up costs and result in increased premiums or fewer benefits. Public comment closed this week on a proposal to crack...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 17, 2023 | Inequities and SDOH, Tea Leaves
When Black patients see Black doctors, they are more likely to get preventative care, according to the National Institutes of Health. Sixty percent of African Americans have cardiovascular disease, according to the American Heart Association, but fewer than 3 percent...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 17, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
The Pentagon will allow service members up to three weeks of leave to travel for abortions and other noncovered reproductive health care,according to a slate of new policies announced on Thursday. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin first announced in October that the...
by Jessica Casebolt | Feb 16, 2023 | Providers, Tea Leaves
Workforce hurdles such as personnel shortages were the top headache for community hospital CEOs in 2022, outweighing the longtime go-to of financial issues for a second consecutive year in the American College of Healthcare Executives’ latest annual survey. The...
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