That is the title of a paper I published today in Journal of Market Access & Health Policy with co-authors by Karim EI-Kersh, Nadine Zawadzki, Catelyn Coyle, Shurui Zhang, Dhruv Dalal, Anna Watzker, and Dominik Lautsch. The abstract is below: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and cancer share high mortality and complex prognoses. Due to PAH’s…
The Trump administration has cancelled $766 million in contracts to develop mRNA vaccines against potential pandemic flu viruses. In addition, since President Donald Trump took office, at least half of the security council’s staff have been laid off or left. This is dangerous say former health security officials. The post In Axing mRNA Contract, Trump…
New enrollments under the Affordable Care Act are on pace to trail last year’s record numbers by as many as a million as the outgoing Biden administration confronts upheavals in the program. Donald Trump’s election to a second term has cast uncertainty around the future of the health law. In addition, the Biden administration implemented…
To reduce overdose rates in the U.S., leaders must recognize the impact of medication-assisted treatment in correctional facilities. The post Unlocking the Potential: Medication Assisted Therapies for Opioid Substance Use Disorder in Correctional Settings appeared first on MedCity News.
A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled 2-1 that the 2018 law does not violate drugmakers’ constitutional rights
The Alliance for Women’s Health and Prevention and several other organizations are urging employers to cover the “full range of evidence-based obesity care options,” including medical nutrition therapy, intensive behavioral therapy, surgery and medications. The post More than 65 Organizations Call on Workplaces to Provide Comprehensive Obesity Care Coverage appeared first on MedCity News.
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By MIKE MAGEE Two years ago, prior to the 2022 election, mental health experts alerted the medical world to their version of an assessment scale for yet another new condition – “doomscrolling.” As defined in the article, “Constant exposure to negative news on social media and news feeds could take the form of ‘doomscrolling’ which is…
Hospitals have spent years amassing political influence at the federal and state levels. According to the nonprofit OpenSecrets, hospitals and nursing homes’ federal lobbying spending rose from $35 million in 2000 to more than $133 million last year, a 280% increase. They recently had a unique opportunity to flex some of that political muscle in…
“You know when the Patient Access Curator went live because you can see it in our stock price. It helped us drive a $100 million bottom-line improvement within two quarters.” —Ken Kubisty, Vice President of Revenue Cycle at Exact Sciences Challenge Exact Sciences is a prominent cancer diagnostics laboratory with an annual net revenue of…