Author: Scott Welch
A growing shortage of common cancer treatments is forcing doctors to switch medications and delaying some care, prominent U.S. cancer centers say. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network said Wednesday that nearly all the centers it surveyed late last month were dealing with shortages of carboplatin and cisplatin, a pair of drugs used to treat a range of ...
The arguments that hospitals’ trade groups have used for years — mainly, that they need more money from the government — are beginning to fall flat, indicating one of Washington’s most powerful lobbying juggernauts may be losing some goodwill. While groups like the American Hospital Association, which represents about 5,000 hospitals and which spent $27 ...
Policy analysts, Democrats, and Republicans dissatisfied with the deal agree: Federal health programs have dodged a budgetary bullet in the Washington showdown over raising the nation’s debt ceiling.
Employers are bracing for 2024, fearing they’ll face inflation and soaring healthcare costs while still trying to recruit and retain workers in a tight labor market, a new survey shows.
A federal appeals court will hear arguments Tuesday about whether to continue a pause of a Texas district court’s ruling that struck down an ObamaCare provision requiring insurers to cover preventive services for free.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized the temporary importation of an unapproved chemotherapy drug from China in effort to ease an acute shortage of cancer drugs in the United States, according to an update posted to the agency’s website Friday.
The cracks in Medicaid that some experts feared eligible beneficiaries could slip through during the disenrollment process appear to forming, according to a new KFF survey. Many people eligible for Medicaid have not gone through the reenrollment process before. Many others simply aren’t aware that they’re eligible, according to KFF’s review of early data from 11 states. These ...
Apple today announced new health features in iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and watchOS 10, expanding into two impactful areas and providing innovative tools and experiences across platforms. New mental health features allow users to log their momentary emotions and daily moods, see valuable insights, and easily access assessments and resources. iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch ...
Altarum’s monthly Health Sector Economic Indicators (HSEI) spending series tracks US health care spending and its components on a monthly basis using data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis and other sources to reflect as closely as possible the categories and spending totals published annually by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the National ...
Self-insured employers face myriad challenges in trying to manage growing healthcare costs, and one of those results from recent history, according to a survey by the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions (NAHPC). “Employers are seeing a rise in high-cost claims for younger plan members, with $1 million+ claims disproportionately weighted toward this demographic,” the NAHPC survey ...