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November 24, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
Providers and policy analysts welcomed the CMS' news it may offer a payment model for hospitals to provide housing and other social services, but they argue that success depends on collaborating with other agencies and organizations.
November 21, 2018 | Health Affairs Blog
Despite at least two decades of rhetoric about the need to build a robust primary care infrastructure, the US health care system continues to limp along with the smallest ratio of primary care providers to specialists of any high-income...
November 20, 2018 | Kaiser Health News
Supporters of the nation’s health law condemn them. A few states, including California and New York, have banned them. Other states limit them.
But to some insurance brokers and consumers, short-term insurance plans are an enticing, low-...
November 20, 2018
Robust primary care is vital for older Americans and patients with chronic diseases. Patients with heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, and other chronic illnesses account for approximately 90 percent of the health care dollar,much of which...
November 20, 2018 | New York Times
At least three dozen students have come down with chickenpox at a private school in North Carolina — nearly one-quarter of the student body — in what health officials call the largest outbreak in the state since the chickenpox vaccine...
November 20, 2018 | Miami Herald
I have been a pediatrician for 40 years. Over those decades, science and society have changed pretty drastically. We now understand how stressful life experiences, especially when frequent and pervasive, get embedded into the biology,...
November 19, 2018 | STAT
The Food and Drug Administration wants to ramp up the way it regulates smartphone apps linked to prescription drugs — like medication reminders or symptom trackers.
In a new proposal released Monday, the agency said it may treat some apps...
November 19, 2018
The report found that 51% of office visits for employer-sponsored insurance were for PCPs in 2012. Four years later, that percentage dropped to 43%. Every state saw a drop in PCP office visits between 2012 and 2016, ranging from a 6%...
November 19, 2018 | The Sacramento Bee
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People could add years to their lives in California and other smog-plagued parts of the world if authorities could reduce particulate pollution — soot from cars and industry — to levels recommended by the World Health...
November 15, 2018 | STAT
SAN FRANCISCO — An ambitious startup that uses digital coaching and monitoring to try to help patients reverse type 2 diabetes, is making a big change to the way it makes money: Insurers and employers will now only pay Virta if its service...
November 15, 2018 | Health Care Cost Institute
Office visits to primary care physicians (PCPs) declined 18 percent from 2012 to 2016 for adults under 65 years old with employer-sponsored health insurance, while office visits to nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs)...
November 14, 2018 | Kaiser Health News
When she was in her early 20s, Nicole Veum says, she made a lot of mistakes.
“I was really sad and I didn’t want to feel my feelings,” she said. “I turned to the most natural way I could find to cover that all up and I started using drugs...
November 14, 2018 | New York Times
The nation’s hospitals have been merging at a rapid pace for a decade, forming powerful organizations that influence nearly every health care decision consumers make.
The hospitals have argued that consolidation benefits consumers with...
November 14, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
So the National Rifle Association wants to stifle free speech in order to protect the right to bear arms. Did the gun lobby not notice the First Amendment precedes the Second Amendment in the U.S. Constitution?After the American College of...
November 14, 2018 | The Hill
Fewer people are signing up for ObamaCare plans this year compared to a similar period last year, according to data released Wednesday by the Trump administration.
About 1.2 million people signed up for ObamaCare plans in the first ten...
November 14, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
Many hospitals aren't equipped to treat patients with behavioral health needs, but they could do better if they develop a clear vision for caring for those patients, according to a new report released Wednesday.The not-for-profit ECRI...
November 14, 2018
The CMS wants to know how it can reduce HIPAA burdens that limit care coordination and has submitted a proposal for a request for information to the White House's Office of Management and Budget.The goal of the solicitation is to figure...
November 13, 2018 | Washington Post
Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, signaled Tuesday that the agency plans action against flavored cigars - products that are especially popular among African American teens - as part of an aggressive effort...
November 13, 2018 | Politico
The Trump administration is continuing to weigh plans to discontinue more than $100 million in research projects that use fetal tissue, alarming scientists and some HHS officials while invigorating the president's supporters in the anti-...
November 12, 2018 | Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Move more, sit less and get kids active as young as age 3, say new federal guidelines that stress that any amount and any type of exercise helps health.
The advice is the first update since the government’s physical...
