Author: Scott Welch
Nearly half of cancers could be avoided by cutting out three major risk factors, a new study has revealed. Research published this week in Nature Medicine identified that nearly 40% of global cancer cases are linked to tobacco (15% of new cases), infections (10%) and alcohol consumption (3%). Overall, 7.1 million cancer diagnoses in 2022 were linked ...
Nevada workers enrolled in the state’s health insurance program could see significant plan changes starting in July as the system faces a dire financial situation that officials say is the result of holding off too long on raising premiums. The Public Employees’ Benefit Program (PEBP) — the insurance provider for more than 70,000 Nevada state ...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon signed a massive funding package that ends a brief government shutdown and provides full-year funding for the federal government through the end of the year. The House voted earlier in the day to pass the package by a vote of 217-214. As part of negotiations between Senate Democrats and ...
Talks to revive enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that expired at the end of last year appeared to be fizzling out Tuesday, with Democrats expressing little optimism about a proposal from Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) that he described as the “best and final” offer his party would make. Lawmakers had been negotiating over a proposal from Moreno that ...
Kaiser Permanente and Renown Health have wrapped the paperwork on a deal forming an insurance and outpatient care joint venture in northern Nevada. The arrangement announced last September (see below) represents an entry into the geographic market for Kaiser, the country’s largest nonprofit health system. It brings Hometown Health—an existing health plan run by Renown ...
The launch of TrumpRx, an online platform enabling consumers to purchase discounted prescription drugs directly from manufacturers, has been delayed. Although it was expected to go live in late January, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced at a cabinet meeting last week that it instead “is going to be happening sometime, probably in the next ...
Nevada’s overdose deaths are climbing even as fatalities fall dramatically across the rest of the country, and a new hospital in Henderson is betting it can help reverse that trend by treating addiction and serious medical conditions under the same roof. Las Vegas Recovery Hospital, a 68-bed, 32,000-square-foot facility on the Dignity Health St. Rose ...
Brushing and flossing are not the only factors that can impact your dental health: where you live can have an effect, too. WalletHub found that some areas of the United States have a higher density of dental professionals, and some states provide fluoridated water to nearly all of their residents, while other states fall behind. ...
The Federal Trade Commission and Cigna’s Evernorth unit have officially reached a settlement that resolves allegations that the company’s pharmacy benefit manager artificially drove up prices for insulin. As part of the settlement, Evernorth’s Express Scripts has agreed to several key business changes that are designed to reduce insulin prices significantly, the FTC said in ...
Health insurers are warning that flat Medicare Advantage rates, as proposed by the Trump administration late Monday, would likely force them to take a deep look at the benefits they offer. Chris Bond, spokesperson for AHIP, the key lobbying organization for the insurance industry, said in a statement that the organization and its members “welcome reforms ...