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The UnitedHealth subsidiary opened a temporary version of its Rx ePrescribing service for drugstores, hospital and nursing home pharmacies, and other providers impacted by the ransomware attack on the company, Modern Healthcare reports.
As part of the federal government spending bills released Sunday, Congress has agreed to bump up payments that doctors get from Medicare through the rest of 2024. A partial shutdown looms Friday if lawmakers can't push through the package by then.
In the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a case Monday that threatens cost-free preventive care services. The Biden administration is appealing a lower Texas court's ruling related to HIV-prevention drugs, that if upheld would have larger implications for coverage.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Each week, KFF Health News finds longer stories for you to enjoy. This week's selections include stories on Castleman disease, Kawasaki disease, phage therapy, Tribeca Pediatrics, and more.
Editorial writers discuss the Physician Self-Referral Law, drug addiction, and IVF.
The goal is to ensure health care access in rural areas by creating a new type of health facility. Also in the news, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles launched a new Small Baby Unit; a shigellosis outbreak hits unhoused people in Santa Cruz; a Michigan study of marijuana health benefits; more.
Excessive alcohol consumption drove a spike in deaths at the height of the pandemic, new CDC data show. Separately, the WHO is warning that effective anti-obesity medication isn't going to be enough to solve a problem that affects over a billion people around the world.
The brain implant company was cited for problems with record-keeping and quality controls for animal experiments, Reuters says. The company's Texas facility was found problem-free. Also in the news, biotech companies worry about government oversight of biosecurity as it pertains to China.
Although the worst of the covid pandemic is over, problems it caused in the U.S. nursing home industry persist. CMS, meanwhile, reports that during the pandemic in 2021, health systems saw deepened racial disparities and worse care outcomes affect their quality measures.
The numbers are small, around two cases per 100,000 people who've been given the vaccine, and more data is required to properly quantify the risk. Meanwhile, Pfizer says its RSV single dose vaccine Abrysvo protects against the illness through two years.
Such programs were not a part of the stopgap funding measure passed by Congress yesterday, that will keep the government operating further into March. Providers and hospitals hope that extended money for community health centers or a reduction of the Medicare physician pay cut could still make a final spending deal.
Laws that included banning abortions after 20 weeks were struck down by District Court Judge Kurt Krueger. Meanwhile, Missouri accused Planned Parenthood of "trafficking" minors for abortions. The death of a pregnant Amish woman is among other news.
Alabama's House and Senate both passed similar bills Thursday that will be swapped and debated next week. The measures aim to address fallout from the state's Supreme Court ruling granting "personhood" to frozen embryos. News outlets also examine the reverberations from that case outside of Alabama.
Hospitals, health systems, and pharmacies that work with the UnitedHealth subsidiary are now feeling the effects of the cyberattack on Change Healthcare as payments are frozen. More patients are also experiencing difficulty in getting their medical prescriptions filled amid reports that the ransomware outage could last several more weeks.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
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The CDC is urging physicians to switch from the Td vaccine to the Tdap vaccine whenever possible because of a shortage risk prompted by MassBiologics' decision to discontinue production of its Td vaccine, CBS News reported. Also: updates on the measles, chikungunya, and flu vaccines.
Two law-and-order ballot measures will, if passed, represent a new tack against public drug use and property crime in the famously progressive city, the Wall Street Journal says. Meanwhile, California is reacting to White House prompts, and may tighten gun storage rules.
The Hill reports on new research suggesting that at least 80% of the three most common plastic compounds found in tap water are destroyed when the water is boiled. Other public health news is on PFAS in food packaging, ultra-processed foods, and the "fasting-mimicking diet."
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