January 2025

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office. The rules ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers’ credit reports and prohibit lenders from considering medical information…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Six years after he entered office vowing to be California’s “health care governor,” Democrat Gavin Newsom has steered tens of billions in public funding to safety net services for the state’s neediest residents while engineering rules to make health care more accessible and affordable for all Californians. More than a million California…

Joey Ballard is an internal medicine resident at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He wrote to “An Arm and a Leg” about a resolution the American Medical Association recently adopted calling on hospitals to do more to make sure patients who qualify for charity care get it. And that legislators and regulators make sure that’s happening….

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In late June, 2024, two economists, Zarek Brot-Goldberg and Zack Cooper, from the University of Chicago and Yale respectively, released an economic analysis arguing that hospital mergers damage local economies and result in an increase in deaths by suicide and drug overdoses in the markets where mergers occur. Funded by Arnold Ventures…

When conducting evidence synthesis, many individuals use the PICO framework. PICO stands for population; intervention; comparator(s); and outcome. This helps to describe the research question that the evidence synthesis aims to answer. However, recently Remiro‐Azócar (2024) proposed PICOSI framework. PICOSI stands for: PopulationInterventionComparator(s)OutcomesSummary effect measure; Intercurrent events In fact, Canada’s Drug Agency’s (CDA) recent draft…