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A handful of cases nationwide are aimed at forcing insurers to provide the necessary drugs to patients regardless of the high cost. Elsewhere, in Montana, a woman is suing her health care providers because she says they failed to diagnose her unborn child's cystic fibrosis.
An Ohio woman becomes a victim of a practice called provider-based billing and a woman in California gets a surprise "paramedic response" bill.
In other marketplace news, shares of the wunderkind Axovant Sciences were down 40 percent Tuesday from the post-IPO peak, and the trial begins regarding a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson alleging a link between its talcum powder and ovarian cancer.
“People may remember that I took on the health insurance industry back in the nineties,” Hillary Clinton said at a recent event in Iowa. In other 2016 election news, a bipartisan group examines Sen. Bernie Sanders' plan to pay for universal health care and reports that it falls far short of estimates and The Washington Post's Fact Checker calls out Sen. Ted Cruz's premium claims.
The administration's proposal focuses on expanding treatment for abuse and providing access to the so-called overdose antidote naloxone.
The Senate committee hears a handful of residents testify but takes no action on the Democratic bill since the governor also is expected to make a proposal soon. In New Hampshire, a House committee advances a bill that would continue that state's expansion.
Peter Lee said UnitedHealth Group made mistakes but failed to acknowledge them. Also in health law news is a report on how small-business owners are dealing with provisions about insuring workers and a look at how the insurance business is changing.
Ahead of Thursday's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on drug costs, congressional Democrats release documents from former Turing CEO Martin Shkreli and others that reveal how the company planned to maximize profits and control public perception.
The vote was not expected to be successful, but it provided congressional Republicans more fodder for election-year messaging.
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News outlets report on health care issues in Florida, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, California, Kansas, Washington and Illinois.
News outlets also report on Iowa Medicaid developments such as competition among participating health care companies and more issues with the governor's privatization plan.
Newtopia, a wellness service company that offers genetic testing to employees, has shown promising results. About 50 percent of participants remain "engaged" a year after starting the program, compared to a national average of 24 percent for wellness efforts. In other public health news, CDC tweaks its HPV vaccination recommendations; American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists updates its philosophy on breastfeeding; and colleges are teaching students how to avoid unplanned pregnancies.
Even though the tie between the virus and microcephaly, which causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads, is still unclear, the World Health Organization says the seriousness of the cases is a strong enough reason for the designation.
Hospital operators and administrators are also preparing for the possibility of more reductions in Medicare and Medicaid fees in the upcoming budget cycle.
A new survey finds that the costs of drugs has risen across the board on a wide-range of medications, more than doubling for 60 drugs in the past year. Meanwhile, a generic version of a promising cancer drug, which costs about 30 percent less, is hitting the market.
President Barack Obama will request an increase from Congress that would bump up total funding for a cancer initiative to $1 billion over the next two years. But biological researchers warn that money will go fast.
Also in the news, Gilead Sciences Inc. CEO John Martin will step down and be replaced by Chief Operating Officer John Milligan.
Even after posting a 38-percent surge in fourth-quarter earnings, Aetna joins the voices of other large insurers who are concerned about the sustainability of the health law plans.
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