A report supporting the CDC’s revisions says the U.S. is an outlier in the number of diseases and the total number of vaccine doses recommended in its pediatric vaccine schedule. But some physician groups say comparisons to other countries can be misguided and removing vaccines from the schedule puts children’s health at risk. The post…
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has taken major steps to help people with medical debt in its nearly 14-year history. It issued rules barring medical debt from Americans’ credit reports and went after debt collectors who pressured customers to pay bills they didn’t owe. But in early February, the Trump administration moved to effectively…
NEW ORLEANS — Elyse Stevens had a reputation for taking on complex medical cases. People who’d been battling addiction for decades. Chronic-pain patients on high doses of opioids. Sex workers and people living on the street. “Many of my patients are messy, the ones that don’t know if they want to stop using drugs or…
New role guides patients through assessment, stabilization and follow-up coordination and connects them to community-based resources
In a new Trump administration executive order, the Secretary of HHS is directed to work with Congress to implement a change in law to delay negotiation of so-called “small molecule” drugs under the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program for an additional 4 years. This brief analyzes how many of the drugs previously…
CLARKSBURG, Calif. — On a sunny August morning in this agricultural town, before temperatures soared to 103 degrees, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra stood outside the small public library. He came to talk about the Biden administration’s efforts to protect farmworkers from extreme heat and wildfire smoke, two emerging public health issues…
It’s that time of year again: open enrollment for Affordable Care Act insurance — a period that runs from tomorrow to Jan. 15 in most states, a bit longer in some, and shorter in Idaho. One of the biggest changes this time around: a new rule from the Biden administration that opens enrollment to Deferred…
Despite recent efforts to bolster California’s behavioral health workforce, the state is operating with only about two-thirds of the psychiatrists and therapists it needs. The problem is so severe it’s making it hard to backfill retiring practitioners, particularly in the state’s rural areas. “It feels helpless, because there is more than you can fix. There’s…
Finding missing health insurance is critical to keeping revenue cycles on track. Insurance eligibility verification is an important process providers use to confirm active coverage, including additional coverage a patient may have forgotten. According to Experian Health’s State of Claims 2024 survey, almost a fifth of providers say missing coverage is a top reason for…
Ouro Medicines’ drugs deplete disease-driving immune cells, allowing the immune system to reset with naïve cells that don’t attack the body. Monograph Capital founded the startup in partnership with GSK. The post Immunology Startup Ouro Sets Out With $120M for Drugs That Reset the Immune System appeared first on MedCity News.