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The agency also wrote in a letter Thursday that a health-care startup’s cancer detection kit, which would be sold directly to healthy individuals, is high-risk and could harm public health.
A security breach of the insurance company's computer system may have compromised the personal information of 11 million customers. Some of them are suing, citing attempts at identify theft. In other Health IT news, a Walgreens database outage delayed prescriptions at thousands of pharmacies.
CNN questions the Republican candidate's campaign on statements Carly Fiorina made in a 2013 interview, while NPR reports on her abortion stance. Meanwhile, KHN analyzes Hillary Clinton's proposals to save consumers money on health care.
With pharmaceutical companies receiving a lot of attention over the skyrocketing costs of drugs, Novartis CEO Joseph Jimenez talks to The Washington Post. And after Turing's controversial price hike for an HIV drug made waves this week, NBC News reports on other similar cases in the industry.
Other prominent doctors groups, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians, have expressed concern about the proposed mergers' impact on patients.
The plan, which faces skepticism from many Republican state legislators and is the product of hours of negotiations, will be the topic of briefings given next week during closed-door meetings.
The flaws uncovered by auditors are now fixed but included critical issues of security policy, such as not encrypting user sessions. Millions of insurance customers' data is stored on the $110-million system known as MIDAS. In other health law news, a new study shows that Americans' top concern when shopping for health coverage is the monthly premium they will pay.
With just days left before a possible federal government shutdown, Democrats blocked passage of a bill that would have funded the government through Dec. 11 but included a provision to strip federal funding from the women's health organization. Meanwhile, Republican leaders in both the House and Senate are moving ahead in efforts to pass a clean, bipartisan budget measure.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have contingency plans in place for managing the transition to ICD-10. In other medical practice news, physician groups oppose draft language aimed at curbing "surprise" billing. And telemedicine usage is on the rise.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Each week, KHN's Shefali Luthra finds interesting reads from around the Web.
Health care stories are reported from North Carolina, Pennsylvania, California, Missouri, Maryland, Florida, Alabama, Ohio, Texas, Massachusetts and New Jersey.
A planned $350 million in budget cuts to the state's Medicaid therapy services were scheduled to go into effect on Oct. 1 and impact an estimated 60,000 kids with conditions like autism, cerebral palsy and spina bifida. In North Carolina, the Medicaid overhaul bill takes effect as Gov. Pat McCrory signs it into law.
Elsewhere, Texas health officials consider plans to consolidate two of the state’s women’s health programs. One goal of the move is to reduce the growing rate of teen pregnancies in certain parts of the state.
In related news, a judge rules that CVS did not intentionally defraud the government when it filed erroneous Medicare claims, as a whistleblower lawsuit alleged.
Two outlets examine common coverage issues for consumers.
The executives' mission was to win support for proposed mergers. But concerns still exist about the impact these deals might have on consumers.
Losses for this sector picked up this week after Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said there might be "price gouging" happening in this part of the market.
The decision by a pharmaceutical company to raise the price of the 62-year-old drug 5,000 percent raised the ire of consumers and politicians alike. But health care advocates and industry experts have been wary of the growing prices for some time. Also, several outlets look at the man who decided to raise the price of Daraprim and set off the latest controversy.
Graham, a senator from South Carolina, maintains that a shutdown would be politically damaging for Republicans. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Times examines the evolution of policy positions taken by another candidate, Carly Fiorina.
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