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Staggering Prices Slow Insurers’ Coverage Of CAR-T Cancer Therapy

(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News) Patients whose blood cancers have failed to respond to repeated rounds of chemotherapy

According to a new report conducted by Sun Life, the largest independent stop-loss provider in the U.S., the number of

(By Sharon Begley for STAT) From the earliest days of the CRISPR-Cas9 era, scientists have known that the first step

(By Leo Vartorella for Becker’s Hospital Review) As the pool of workers has shrunk with declining unemployment rates, companies are

(By Richard Harris for NPR) When you go to your doctor’s office, sometimes it seems the caregivers spend more time

While Medicare does pay for the bulk of hospital related expenses, there can be thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket healthcare

Although new drug shortages have declined in recent years, the Food and Drug Administration is forming a new task force

(By Ayla Ellison for Becker’s Hospital Review) CMS issued its annual update to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule July 12,

(By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News) For Hodalis Gaytan, 20, living with Type 1 diabetes means depending on

(By Emily Rappleye for Becker’s Hospital Review) The burgeoning medical tourism industry — valued at $68 billion in 2016 by