Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are both eager to take on high drug prices, leaving pharmaceutical companies on the defensive as they spend millions of dollars this election season. When Harris was California’s attorney general, she joined cases that resulted in almost $7.2 billion (about $22 per person in the United…
THCB Gang is coming back! (I know you’ve all missed it) and we are starting with a bang. I’ll be meeting with six powerhouse women leaders in health care who’ve just issued a public statement signed by another 500+ women leaders in support of the Harris/Walz campaign. On the Gang today are Missy Krasner, digital…
Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms. She’s desperate for information, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a critical source of urgent analyses of the flu and other public health…
SCAN Health Plan and Astrana Health recently launched SCAN Allied, a Medicare Advantage plan designed for the Asian older adult population. It includes access to a network of culturally competent providers, specialists and pharmacies from Astrana Health. The post SCAN, Astrana Launch MA Plan Tailored to Asian Older Adults appeared first on MedCity News.
It seems no one is taking covid-19 seriously anymore, said Mollee Loveland, a nursing home aide who lives outside Pittsburgh. Loveland has seen patients and coworkers at the nursing home where she works die from the viral disease. Now she has a new worry: bringing home the coronavirus and unwittingly infecting her infant daughter, Maya,…
Meditech is integrating Suki’s AI assistant into more than a dozen rural health systems, including St. Mary’s Healthcare in New York and Decatur County Memorial Hospital in Indiana. The post When It Comes to AI, Rural Doctors Have FOMO — Meditech & Suki Are Teaming Up to Address This appeared first on MedCity News.
Indiana residents and federal officials are urging state health regulators to stop two rival hospitals in Terre Haute from merging. The deal, if approved, would leave residents with a hospital monopoly. Union Health, a nonprofit whose main hospital is licensed as a 341-bed facility, would buy the county’s only other acute care hospital, the 278-bed…
Durante la presidencia de Joe Biden, la inscripción en Medicaid alcanzó un nivel récord y la tasa de personas sin seguro médico llegó a su nivel histórico más bajo. Pero se espera que el regreso de Donald Trump a la Casa Blanca, junto con un Senado y una Cámara de Representantes controlados por republicanos, cambie…
A new KFF analysis finds that there were 44 million people enrolled in health coverage through the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplaces and its expansion of the Medicaid program in 2024. That represents about 1 in every 6 people under age 65, or 16.4%. There was significant variation in ACA enrollment across states, ranging from…More
This edition highlights vaccine hesitancy and misinformation around MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) vaccines as children return to school and measles cases resurge in parts of the U.S. It also examines emerging narratives around COVID-19 vaccine misinformation following the FDA approval of COVID-19 boosters and false claims linking mpox to the vaccines.