Disability Rights Lawyers Threatened With Budget Cuts, Reassignments
The Trump administration is trying to slash access to lawyers who defend the rights of…
Disability Rights Lawyers Threatened With Budget Cuts, Reassignments
The Trump administration is trying to slash access to lawyers who defend the rights of Americans with disabilities, advocates say. Most of the lawyers work either for the Department of Justice or for disability rights agencies that Congress set up in every state decades ago. Many of the Justice Department lawyers quit in 2025 after…
One Big Beautiful Bill Act Complicates State Health Care Affordability Efforts
As Congress debates whether to extend the temporary federal subsidies that have helped millions of Americans buy health coverage, a crucial underlying reality is sometimes overlooked: Those subsidies are merely a band-aid covering the often unaffordable cost of health care. California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and five other states have set caps on health care spending in…
Readers Make Their Wish Lists, Checking Up on Health Care
Letters to the Editor is a periodic feature. We welcome all comments and will publish a selection. We edit for length and clarity and require full names. How To Excise Politics From Health Care More than a decade after the Affordable Care Act took effect, we’re still trapped in a confusing and costly health care maze (“Readers Take…
The rise of concierge medicine
From Zhu et al. (2025) in Health Affairs: Primary care clinicians have expressed growing interest in concierge and direct primary care practices, which often feature smaller patient panels and greater clinical autonomy compared with traditional primary care models. We assessed practice and workforce characteristics using a national sample of concierge and direct primary care practices…
Coalition of Pharmacy Groups Urges Congress to Enact PBM Reform
A coalition of major pharmacy organizations urged Congressional leaders to enact long-stalled PBM reforms to curb anti-competitive practices, lower drug costs and stop accelerating pharmacy closures that are limiting patient access to care. The post Coalition of Pharmacy Groups Urges Congress to Enact PBM Reform appeared first on MedCity News.
Travis Rush & Kala Weeks, Reperio
Reperio Health is trying to really boost the delivery of at home health testing, including not only weight and blood pressure but also cholesterol, obesity and blood sugar. Having use the kit and done an at home demo, I’m pretty interested to see if this can be a front-end telehealth service to get the average…
Mass General Brigham Spins Out Generative AI Startup
Mass General Brigham spun out a new company offering a generative AI platform that can rapidly interpret both structured and unstructured clinical data. Right now, the tool’s primary application is to accelerate and improve the accuracy of patient screening for clinical trials. The post Mass General Brigham Spins Out Generative AI Startup appeared first on…
Health Wonk Review
This week’s edition of the Health Wonk Review is up at Joe Paduda’s Managed Care Matters. My article on Singapore’s health care system is highlighted, but check out the whole thing!
Sobi Grows Its Gout Drug Prospects With $950M Acquisition of Startup Arthrosi Therapeutics
Arthrosi Therapeutics’ pozdeutinurad is in Phase 3 testing as a treatment for uncontrolled gout. Sobi says this once-daily capsule complements its own asset, an infused biologic medicine currently under FDA review as a third-line gout treatment. The post Sobi Grows Its Gout Drug Prospects With $950M Acquisition of Startup Arthrosi Therapeutics appeared first on MedCity…
Test Your Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Knowledge
[Sponsored] Take our quiz and learn more about perspectives on AI and RCM in healthcare. The post Test Your Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management Knowledge appeared first on MedCity News.
