House passes bill to create health agency focused on biomedical innovation
(by Mychael Schnell on 06/22/22 for Kaiser Health News) The House passed a bill on Wednesday to create a new
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Patients losing access to physicians as telehealth access rolls back
(by Naomi Diaz for Becker’s Hospital Review) State by state, telehealth access is rolling back as the pandemic-era emergency orders,
Read MoreA Look at Suicide Rates Ahead of 988 Launch—A National Three-Digit Suicide Prevention Hotline
(by Heather Saunders and Nirmita Panchal for KFF June 22, 2022) Nearly half a million lives (480,622) were lost to
Read MoreMark Cuban’s generic drug prices would save Medicare billions of dollars: Harvard study
(by Paige Twenter for Beckers Hospital Review) Medicare recipients could have saved up to $3.6 billion on generic drug costs
Read MoreNorth Carolina considers new laws to ‘de-weaponize’ medical debt and protect
(by Aneri Pattani for NPR) RALEIGH, N.C. — When Erin Williams-Reavis faced a $3,500 surgery bill, the hospital offered to
Read MoreLive Whole Health Episode 126: Introduction to Qigong
(Source-blog.va.gov) “What is all that noise down there?!” my teenage daughter shouted from her bedroom, as I was tidying up
Read MoreFAQs on Medicare Financing and Trust Fund Solvency
( by Juliette Cubanski and Tricia Neuman for Kaiser Family Foundation Published: Jun 17, 2022) Medicare, the federal health insurance
Read MoreExpress Scripts’ $25 insulin cap led to lower costs, better adherence to diabetes treatment, study finds
(by Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review) Express Scripts’ $25 insulin cap program has slashed patient cost-sharing in half and
Read MoreCMS Unveils More User-Friendly Medicare Website
(Source-CMS.gov) Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled several updates to the Medicare.gov website that make it easier, for
Read MoreA CDC expert answers questions on monkeypox
(By Helen Branswell for STAT) Monkeypox, a disease that rarely shows up outside a belt of countries across Central and
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