HELENA, Mont. — Despite concerns about what Congress and the Trump administration might have planned for Medicaid, Montana’s Republican-led legislature and GOP governor appear ready to keep the state’s Medicaid expansion program in place beyond its scheduled end date this summer. State lawmakers don’t have the luxury of waiting until the federal picture sharpens. They…
When education is incomplete, patients don’t just feel uninformed; they feel dismissed. The post Where Patient Education Breaks Down in Breast Cancer Care appeared first on MedCity News.
CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz outlined the agency’s strategy for making healthcare more affordable during a Tuesday address at the HFMA Annual Conference, touching on everything from Medicare fraud to drug pricing to nutrition. The post The 5 Areas Where Dr. Oz Says CMS Can Make Healthcare More Affordable appeared first on MedCity News.
By KIM BELLARD It’s December 3, and, to no one’s surprise, Congress still has not acted on extending the expanded health care premium tax credits for ACA. To Congress, the subsidies don’t expire until the end of the year, so they figure they have until at least then to act, or maybe sometime after that,…
Roche said it will expand existing sites and construct new U.S. manufacturing and R&D infrastructure in areas such as gene therapy and cardiometabolic disease. The plans follow U.S. capital expenditure announcements from several big pharmaceutical companies. The post Roche Commits to $50B in U.S. Manufacturing and R&D Investments as Pharma Tariffs Loom appeared first on…
This policy watch examines state-by-state school vaccine requirements and exemptions, including recent policy changes to them and the extent to which they may affect vaccination rates.
KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani gave an update on how Ohio is using its opioid settlement funds on WOSU Public Media’s “All Sides with Amy Juravich” on April 30. Click here to hear Pattani on “All Sides with Amy Juravich.” Read Pattani’s coverage of opioid settlements in “Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash.”…
This policy watch uses unwinding data collected through KFF’s Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker to examine how national-level renewal outcomes changed over the course of unwinding, including changes in the share of people who had their coverage renewed or were disenrolled from Medicaid each month.
Ovarian cancer urgently needs bold, transformative treatment approaches – not just small, incremental improvements. Synthetic, allogeneic iMSCs as tumor-targeting delivery vehicles are an example of how cell biology and engineering may unite and overcome longstanding oncology challenges. The post Induced Mesenchymal Stem Cells: A New Frontier in Ovarian Cancer Treatment appeared first on MedCity News.
Through a new partnership, Hinge Health members receiving movement-based menopause support will also be able to access clinical care from Midi Health. The post Hinge Health, Midi Health Strike Partnership for Women Experiencing Menopause appeared first on MedCity News.