The 560-million-year-old fossil of an animal believed to be the first animal predator has received the honor of being named after Sir David Attenborough. Today in health care, Democrats are closing in on the long-held goal of allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, but some last-minute obstacles still loom. Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re following the latest […]
After the death of George Floyd in 2020, SCAN Health Plan, like many companies, decided to take a look at its own efforts in improving health disparities. It ultimately achieved this by tying its executives’ bonuses to the issue. “You’re at a time when the whole healthcare industry is saying that we care about reducing health inequities,” SCAN CEO Sachin […]
The pharmaceutical company Pfizer is not permitted to pay Medicare beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket costs for one of its medications, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. The Health and Human Services Department previously declared a proposed copay program for Pfizer’s $225,000-a-year heart medication tafamidis, also known as Vyndaqel and Vyndamax, isn’t allowed under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. A federal district court sided […]
St. Rita’s Graduate Medical Education (GME) Center was designed to serve medical students during their residency as a space to learn and study. Each space was designed to precisely mimic the clinical environments in an actual hospital, with equipment and materials that would be used in real world scenarios. Also integrated into the design were a variety of study spaces, […]
Dozens of incoming medical students at the University of Michigan walked out on a keynote address from an anti-abortion speaker on Sunday in a now-viral moment. Throngs of incoming medical students, known as white coats, stood up as soon as Kristin Collier, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Michigan, began speaking at the Hill Auditorium during the […]
The Health and Human Services Department intends to reinstate healthcare nondiscrimination rules that President Donald Trump’s administration tossed out two years ago, Secretary Xavier Becerra said Monday. HHS has issued a draft regulation that would once again ban discrimination based on gender identity and would add new protections, including against discrimination based on sexual orientation. “We want to make sure […]
HONORABLE MENTION – 2022 Healthcare Design Showcase For a century, the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s Munroe-Meyer Institute (MMI) has been a world leader in transforming the lives of all individuals with disabilities and complex health care needs. Its patients include some of the nation’s most underserved, including those with autism spectrum and severe behavioral disorders. Today, MMI offers more […]
There’s a lot of buzz in healthcare about the promise of value-based care (VBC) and how it can reign in skyrocketing costs, while delivering improved patient outcomes. And indeed, the move to VBC has yielded positive results in primary care and there are emerging alternative payment models in specialty care for other chronic conditions. So it’s only natural that VBC has come to knock on the […]
Dive Brief: Louisiana-based Ochsner Health is launching a pilot program to bring Ukrainian nurses to the U.S. to work for its hospitals, according to a Friday release. In the first phase, the system will offer eight nurses employment and assist them and their families in getting acclimated to their new communities. Nurses will be committed to their roles for at […]
The global outbreak of monkeypox should not be expected to stay confined to specific groups, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said Monday. Though cases of the virus have been predominantly reported among men who have sex with men, diseases commonly begin in one community before spreading to others. “This really might be the canary in the mine that’s alerting […]