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Access to medications for opioid use disorder, considered the gold standard of care, is poor on average and even worse in underserved settings. Boulder will design and deliver special care pathways across five such settings.
Read full article →The Trump administration will appeal a Georgia court ruling that led it to broadly recalculate insurers' Medicare Advantage star ratings scores for 2026.
Read full article →The agency took another step toward codifying and enacting provider tax thresholds outlined in last summer's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Read full article →The company says its RCM platform, which leverages advanced automation to decrease the cost to collect and increase net collection rates, is now used by more than 200 healthcare organizations.
Read full article →Bipartisan legislation to cap the cost of insulin at $35 for people with private health insurance advanced through a key Senate committee Wednesday, but its future remains uncertain. The measure cleared the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee by a bipartisan 17-5 vote, with six Republicans joining every Democrat on the panel. Notably,...
Read full article →The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said it confirmed more than 2,500 additional cases of cyclosporiasis infections across dozens of states, making it the largest outbreak on record. Nationwide, CDC said it has confirmed 4,173 cases of cyclosporiasis since May 1, though some states are seeing much higher case numbers than others....
Read full article →Women have to navigate the fragmented system with very little support, coordinating between providers and often interpreting conflicting guidance. The post Hidden in Plain Sight: The Cost Crisis in Women’s Healthcare appeared first on MedCity News .
Read full article →“Hospitals often make Argentina’s mistake: We confuse continuity with progress,” writes physician, hospital administrator, and bioethicist Basel Tarab.
Read full article →At least 999 people have died from the Ebola outbreak in Congo, a grim toll in what’s already been declared the fastest Ebola outbreak in history.
Read full article →AI-focused VC firm raises $800M, Merck's new cholesterol pill, and more biotech news from The Readout
Read full article →For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize.
Read full article →Plastic surgery is becoming so normalized and undetectable, it's changing our relationship to reality. The New Yorker staff writer Jia Tolentino considers how beauty standards have dovetailed with AI.
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