A Child Dies From A Gun Accident Every Other Day
USA Today and The Associated Press team up to analyze just how many tragedies have involved minors and accidental shootings.
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Device Used During Open-Heart Surgery May Be To Blame For Wave Of Infections, CDC Warns
The agency issued an advisory for health care providers, and urged patients who have had open-heart surgery to seek medical care if they are experiencing symptoms associated with infections.
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CMS Set To Unveil Final Rule On New Medicare Physician Payment System
In related news, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is also taking steps to reduce physicians' Medicare-related administrative burdens and encouraging seniors to leave their marketplace plans to sign up for Medicare.
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Survey: Medicaid Spending Growth Tapering Off
Now, part of the cost burden of Medicaid coverage will start shifting toward the states because of the requirement they pick up 5 percent of expansion costs starting in 2017. Meanwhile, Virginia's governor will try again to persuade the state to pursue expansion.
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Those Who Benefit Most From Health Law Also Highlight Cracks In Its Foundations
One of the fundamental challenges of the health law is that those who needed coverage the most are getting it. But their care is expensive and younger, healthier people aren't joining to offset the cost. Meanwhile, more than 1 million customers will need to find new plans as insurers pull out of the marketplace.
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Obama Administration Launches Full-On Courtship As Open Enrollment Nears
It will use social media, TV ads, email and direct mail to reach more uninsured Americans. But the media blitz will run up against Republicans' campaigns touting the opposite message. Meanwhile, a study projects that enrollment will either plateau or drop off this year.
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First Edition: October 14, 2016
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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Viewpoints: Paying For Drug Coupons; What About Those Obamacare Haters?
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
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Longer Looks: Trump’s Changing Stances; Life On A Locked Ward; Low-Sodium Pizza
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
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State Highlights: Kansas Hospitals Try New Strategy To Reduce Readmissions; Health Contract For Tenn. Prisons Back Up For Grabs
Outlets report on health news from California, Kansas, Tennessee, Delaware, Georgia, Colorado, Florida, New York and Minnesota.
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Drones Could Be Used As Tool In Battle Against Spread Of Zika
A grant will help officials explore the use of the aerial vehicles and other such innovative ideas. In other news on the virus outbreak, no homegrown cases have yet been found in Central Florida or further to the north.
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Following FDA Warnings, Reports Of Fatalities, Company Discontinues Teething Gel
Other side effects experienced by the infants included seizures, shortness of breath, vomiting and constipation.
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Study: For Every Life Saved By Mammogram, Four Are Over-Diagnosed And Over-Treated
“Mammography can help a few — a very few — women, but it comes at a real human cost, including people undergoing treatment unnecessarily,” says Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, one of the authors of the study.
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On Precipice Of Rare Alzheimer’s Breakthrough, Researchers Hold Their Breaths
In a field where roughly 99 percent of experimental treatments have failed in clinical trials, one drug company thinks they finally cracked the code. In other public health news, gene editing offers hope for those with sickle cell disease, astronauts' exposure to radiation could create major cognitive issues, a study finds 14 million kids may be exposed to toxins in their schools and more.
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Conflicts Of Interest Rampant In Crucial Medical Research Tool, Study Finds
Scientists rely heavily on meta-analyses and systematic reviews, but a new study has found them to be increasingly generated by researchers who have financial interests in the outcome.
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DEA Backs Down Over Plant Some Use To Wean Selves Off Opioids
The Drug Enforcement Administration was considering making kratom a schedule 1 drug.
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With New Reforms, Zenefits Looks To Close Chapter On Past Riddled With Issues
The company, which helped employers buy health insurance, ran into trouble after it was discovered its founder had created a program to allow sales representatives to skirt requirements on a state insurance licensing course.
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Lawmakers Hear Warnings About Toll MACRA Could Take On Small Practices
As the draft rule on this new Medicare physician payment structure is being finalized, a group of GOP physician-lawmakers expresses alarm to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Other coverage details the role that commercial insurers have in slowing the trend toward value-based payment models and the "predicament" faced by Wills Eye Hospital when it comes to Medicare.
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Humana Stumbles On News Of Lower Medicare Rating
The percentage of Humana’s membership in plans rated four stars or higher dropped to about 37 percent in July from 78 percent. Humana says the lower rating will negatively affect future revenue.
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Waxman Continues Crusade Against Big Pharma’s Profit-Padding From New Perch As Lobbyist
The program former Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) is lobbying for allows hospitals that serve a large proportion of low-income patients to buy drugs from manufacturers at a discount of 20 percent to 50 percent. In other news, a look at why drug coupons are benefiting the industry.
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