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According to federal data released this week, the 2027 plans will eliminate broad networks of doctors and hospitals, cut benefits, and raise out-of-pocket costs for seniors. Insurers' press releases, however, are presenting their plans as robust, Healthcare Dive noted.
While asking the courts to delay the takeover, Arizona's attorneys claimed that the corrections department was not given enough time to make progress and argued that the official appointed to run healthcare operations wouldn’t be politically accountable, AP reported. On Thursday, Justice Elena Kagan denied the state’s request. Arizona's prison healthcare system has received complaints for the past 14 years and was found to have exposed prisoners to harm and preventable deaths.
Christa Pike told the execution team that she felt burning and pain while they were trying to deliver the lethal drug into her system. Joel Zivot, a professor at Emory University School of Medicine who previously was retained by Pike's legal team as a medical expert, offered a theory that the IV lines failed during the procedure, causing pentobarbital to leak outside the veins rather than fully entering Pike's circulation, Newsweek wrote. Pike's prognosis is unclear.
Bipartisan Senate appropriators are looking for language that could be added to the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill that lawmakers hope to pass before stopgap funding expires Dec. 11, Roll Call reported. Meanwhile, STAT reported that NIH grants around race and health disparities saw cuts this year.
Come Jan. 1, 10 pharmaceutical companies will pay rebates to providers only after it's been established that qualifying drugs were dispensed to eligible patients. Drugmakers have expressed concern that there is waste and fraud in the program, an allegation that hospitals say is overblown.
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The tool, which will be offered by digital health company Everlywell, will assess a woman's five-year breast cancer risk using a single mammogram image. The test will not be covered by insurance and will cost $249.
While most physician specialties saw an increase in their average starting salary this year, the specialty that had the greatest year-over-year salary increase was urology, with a 22.5% increase, while gastroenterology had the highest average starting salary, according to an AMN Healthcare analysis. Also in the news: Luminis Health's MyChart is restored after a cyberattack; Epic Systems uses AI to help safeguard medical records; and more.
According to Iowa Public Radio, the state-funded report showed that 76% of the state's excess cases could be explained when controlled for risk factors like age, race, and alcohol and tobacco use, among others. This suggests that "prevention efforts targeting modifiable risk factors would reduce the number of excess cases of cancer in Iowa," the state with one of the highest rates of cancer in the country.
Cellphone bans, intended in part to improve students' mental health, are already in place in most states. This bipartisan legislation would provide money for states to add secure storage spots to enforce bans. Students with special education or medical needs would be able to keep their devices.
As the Keystone State copes with an expanding measles outbreak, health officials in California are monitoring a mumps outbreak at San Diego State University that has sickened 14 people. Meanwhile, Vaccines.gov, a website operated by the CDC that helps people find nearby places to get shots, is not working.
On Wednesday, a single Republican senator successfully blocked Democrats' efforts to stop President Donald Trump's so-called pocket rescission. Trump can now slash congressionally approved funding for several programs that focused on immigrant services, gender transition, carbon emissions, and more, The Washington Post reported. In related news: Refugees, asylum seekers, and some immigrants with legal status lose Medicaid coverage as of today, Bloomberg reported.
Convicted murderer Christa Pike received two syringes of pentobarbital Wednesday night but did not lose consciousness, legal filings show. Pike still had a heartbeat and was snoring before she was taken to a hospital, The New York Times reported. Her medical condition was unclear this morning. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee ordered an investigation and postponed the state's one remaining execution scheduled for this year, USA Today reported.
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A Danish study looked at 27 years of data and found an increase of cancers related to obesity, like colorectal cancer and postmenopausal breast cancer, in people with Type 2 diabetes, Newsweek reported. Between 2010 and 2022, obesity-related cancers were 45% higher in men and 30% higher in women with Type 2 diabetes than those without. Plus: birth control for men, BuzzBallz, peripheral artery disease, and more.
The X2 roller coaster at California's Magic Mountain was retired a week after three people sued Six Flags and S&S Worldwide, The New York Times reported. The companies previously settled lawsuits with the families of two people who died after riding the X2. Plus, an Ohio woman has sued Selby General Hospital and her doctors for gross negligence, battery, and reckless conduct after the wrong leg was amputated during surgery.
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