Thirty five state attorneys general signed an amicus brief claiming that Oklahoma state law should trump federal law in a case involving the question of who can regulate pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), the middlemen in the prescription drug industry. After a national trade association for PBMs known as Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) sued the state of Oklahoma claiming the […]
One would think that this question would be a relatively easy question to answer empirically: simply compare patients with delays against those without delays and see if there is a difference in health outcomes (e.g., survival). This approach, however, is problematic as due to three key methodological concerns. Measurement issues. Ideally, one would like to […]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is looking into COVID-19 research that was conducted at Boston University to determine whether the experiment should have been subject to agency guidelines. Earlier this month, researchers from the Boston University School of Medicine published findings from a preprint study in which they combined the ancestral COVID-19 virus with genetic data from the circulating […]
Liz Truss resigned, but Larry the Cat remains. He’s now outlasted four prime ministers. In health news, a CDC advisory panel voted Thursday to add coronavirus vaccines to the list of routine vaccinations for kids and adults. Welcome to Overnight Health Care, where we’re following the latest moves on policy and news affecting your health. For The Hill, […]
If you’re talented enough to locate and make sense of the pricing information that hospitals and payers have been mandated to publish online, you’ll likely find a high degree of variability. The price for a single procedure can often vary by thousands of dollars when you check different insurance carriers. For an example, we’ll look at Geisenger, a 10-hospital health […]
An estimated 333,942 healthcare providers dropped out of the workforce in 2021, many of whom departed due to retirement, burnout and other stressors related to the pandemic, according to new data. As a profession, physicians lost the most members, with 117,000 individuals leaving their roles last year, followed by nurse practitioners, which lost 53,295 members and physician assistants, with 22,704 positions […]
GE Healthcare, the $17.7 billion health care arm of General Electric (NYSE: GE), is further investing in the home-based care space through a remote patient monitoring (RPM) partnership with AMC Health. This week, the two companies announced a joint venture that will allow GE Healthcare clinicians to offer RPM as a virtual solution to care outside of a traditional hospital […]
The Pentagon will reimburse service members who need to travel to obtain an abortion, the department announced Thursday, a move that’s aimed at helping soldiers or family members stationed in states where the procedure is no longer allowed. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in a memo said the travel requirements of being in the military should not impact a person’s access […]
Winter is coming. Again. For the past two years, colder temperatures have brought seasonal COVID upticks, which turned into massive waves when ill-timed new variants emerged. In Western Europe, the first part of that story certainly seems to be playing out again. Cases and hospitalizations started going up last month. No new variant has become dominant yet, but experts are […]