That is the question that a paper by Wong et al. (2024) aims to answer. FDA use the accelerated approval (AA) pathway to expedite the availability of drugs for serious or life-threatening conditions when a drug demonstrates an effect on a surrogate endpoint that is reasonably likely to predict clinical benefit, or on a clinical…
Through Centivo Care, patients can access free appointments, a dedicated primary care team and behavioral health support. The post Centivo Launches Virtual Primary Care Offering for Employers appeared first on MedCity News.
If you dare, feast your eyes on this year’s winners of KFF Health News’ sixth annual Halloween Haiku contest. We received more than four dozen spooky submissions but only a few bubbled to the top of the cauldron. Here’s the winner and the top runners-up, illustrated by Oona Zenda. The judges’ favorites were inspired by…
Speaking at a NAACOS meeting, Deborah McGill of MaineHealth Medical Group said tech tools have been great enablers of change
House Republicans introduced a proposal seeking to cut Medicaid spending by hundreds of billions of dollars. Healthcare leaders are slamming the budget plan, highlighting that it would result in millions of people losing coverage, as well as a surge in uncompensated care for providers. The post GOP Seeks to Drastically Cut Medicaid Spending — How…
Exact Sciences is paying $75 million up front for U.S. rights to a colorectal cancer blood test developed by rival Freenome. If approved, Freenome’s liquid biopsy will compete with a blood test from Guardant Health. The post Exact Sciences Teams Up With Freenome to Take on Guardant Health in Colorectal Cancer Screening appeared first on…
That is the topic of a JMCP Viewpoint by Sean Sullivan, Jens Grueger, Aidan Sullivan, and Scott Ramsey. Some excerpts: The Budget Lab at Yale University projected that a 25% ad valorem tariff would increase medication costs by an “average of around $600 per year per household in the United States.”3 Tariffs can also create supply…
In the HEOR world, you hear a lot about innovation. However, how can we measure innovation? The easiest way is to count the number of new drugs. However, ten “me too” products may be considered less innovative than a single product that cures a disease. An essay by Sukhun Kang in The Incidental Economist conducted…
“It’s kind of like having a big brother in a box, so to speak,” EMS director says
KFF is tracking the Medicaid provisions in the 2025 federal budget bill, including new Medicaid work and verification requirements and a reduction in the expansion match rate for states that use their own funds to cover undocumented immigrants.