KFF Health News Nevada correspondent Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez discussed the potential impact of Medicaid cuts on rural hospitals on KNPR’s “State of Nevada” on July 17. Click here to hear Orozco Rodriguez on “State of Nevada.” Read Orozco Rodriguez’s “‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Batter Rural Hospital Finances, Researchers Say.” KFF Health News chief Washington…
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…
President Trump unveiled “The Great Healthcare Plan” on January 15, 2026, calling on Congress to reduce prescription drug prices, lower insurance premiums, and increase healthcare price transparency. The plan proposes four main components: codifying Most-Favored-Nation (MFN) drug pricing agreements that the administration has negotiated with 16 pharmaceutical manufacturers, targeting prices at the lowest international levels;Redirecting…
When a New York couple purchased a health insurance plan from a telemarketer, they thought it covered everything they wanted: doctor visits, tests, and medicine. But then came the unexpected bills for thousands of dollars, forcing them to skip crucial medical care. In their series “Health Care Hustlers,” Bloomberg reporters Zachary Mider and Zeke Faux…
Positive Development’s Series C round was co-led by aMoon, B Capital and Flare Capital Partners, and included participation from Digitalis Ventures and Healthworx. The post Positive Development Rakes In $51.5M To Grow Developmental Therapy Model for Autism appeared first on MedCity News.
Devices can send information back to a physician, but that data doesn’t explain how the experience felt. Without that context, healthcare teams miss the very details that shape adherence, satisfaction, and long-term outcomes. The post Beyond Data Logs: Capturing The Real-World Experience Of Medical Devices At Home appeared first on MedCity News.
Check out news from Oral Genome, Carrot Fertility, Thatch, and The Perryman Group. The post StartUPDATES: New Developments for Healthcare Startups appeared first on MedCity News.
Startup Dimer Health offers proactive follow-ups and monitoring of patients at home to reduce the chances of patients returning to the hospital
Lisa Farris worried that a nasty infection from recent liposuction and a tummy tuck was rapidly getting worse. So she phoned the cosmetic surgery center to ask if she should head to the emergency room, she alleges in a lawsuit. The nurse who took the call at the Sono Bello center in Addison, Texas, told…
By GEORGE BEAUREGARD This piece is different from the typical “health-care industry” topics covered in this forum. My Sunday morning routine usually involves getting a cup of coffee and downloading the most recent editions of magazines on my iPad. The cover of the February 13 edition of Time magazine immediately caught my attention because the…