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According to research on patients’ bills, a growing portion of doctors’ offices have been bought up by hospitals in the United States, leading to patients being billed for hospital care for routine care. This can lead to bills that are 10 times costlier or more, The Washington Post reported.
Nearly 30% of the nation’s total infections are in the Keystone State, CDC data show. An infectious disease epidemiologist says the nation's measles tally is likely much higher and noted that Pennsylvania in particular has found the outbreak difficult to contain. “Early and intense action is probably the tool we need, but we need the resources,” said Andrew Pavia, MD.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that people who entered the country unlawfully do not have the same constitutional protection of due process as U.S. citizens. The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a similar case early next year. For now, more than 20,000 people can be held indefinitely in detention centers in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Verite News reported.
The first preenrollment verification checks will begin Aug. 1, 2027, for the 2028 open enrollment period, Modern Healthcare reported. Other administration news is on Medicare Advantage star ratings, SNAP cards, the midterm elections, and more.
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According to nutrition experts, recent restrictions in SNAP benefits are causing schools to accumulate meal debt without government reimbursement. Also in the news: Maryland, California, Virginia, and Louisiana.
After reopening last week, Planned Parenthood’s New Orleans Health Center is accepting insurance from only two private companies — Aetna and Provider Plus — while they wait to secure contracts with other Louisiana insurance providers, including Medicaid health plans.
The company, which serves millions of Americans, said it learned Wednesday of unauthorized access to a system used by doctors and others to order tests and view lab results, The Washington Post reported. Orders could still be made by fax or other methods; full functionality could be restored as soon as today, the company said.
Because it's a virus that previously had not been detected in humans, health officials aren't aware of the symptoms it might cause or its effects on human health. European health officials are trying to determine how the person, who has died, became infected.
An adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Means is leaving his influential role before having met some of his goals, such as reworking the definition of ultraprocessed food and changing school meals, Bloomberg reported. “This movement is in the first inning and just getting started,” he said.
About 390,000 UnitedHealth Group members and about 600,000 Humana members will lose coverage, mostly from Preferred Provider Organizations plans, The Hill and Fortune reported.
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Three individuals joined the Florida Academy of Family Physicians in asking an administrative court to block Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan to eliminate requirements that schoolchildren and children attending child care or daycare be vaccinated against Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), hepatitis B, varicella (chickenpox), and pneumococcal conjugate, Florida Phoenix reported.
"Our findings suggest that testosterone use is associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular events in postmenopausal women," one of the researchers told MedPage Today, emphasizing that the observational findings do not indicate a causal link and more studies are needed.
The departure of Rita Kalyani, the organization's chief scientific and medical officer, comes after an incident at a June meeting in which five association members were escorted out for handing out an editorial voicing concern over cuts to federal research funding, Stat reported.
Health officials in Washington and California in May asked the CDC to validate a high-volume test amid measles outbreaks, but the West Coast Health Alliance recently told Director Erica Schwartz that it took two months for the agency to respond. According to the response letter obtained by The New York Times, there were "other competing priorities."
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