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Insurers Bilked $50B From Medicare For Dubious Diagnoses, Review Finds

July 8, 2024 Morning Briefing

In its analysis of the Medicare Advantage program, The Wall Street Journal looked at details of “doctor visits, hospital stays, prescriptions and other care.” Separately, a Stat review has found that more than two dozen Medicare Advantage insurers now qualify for big taxpayer-funded bonuses.

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If You’re Taking Toddlers Abroad, Get MMR Jabs, CDC Advises

March 19, 2024 Morning Briefing

The vaccine advice comes amid rising U.S. and international cases of measles. But it’s also norovirus and flu season, and influenza B in particular is surging, USA Today reports.

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Estafas a Medicare con pruebas para covid pueden generar otros fraudes

By Susan Jaffe May 18, 2023 KFF Health News Original

La cobertura de Medicare para las pruebas caseras de covid-19 finalizó hace pocos días, pero las estafas generadas por este beneficio temporal podrían tener consecuencias persistentes para las personas mayores.

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Ex-Outcome Health Executive Gets 7 Months In Prison For Role In $1B Fraud

September 20, 2024 Morning Briefing

Ashik Desai was the star witness against his bosses in a trial last year, the Chicago Tribune reports. Other news is on Optum layoffs, Allina Health, the Mayo Clinic, and more.

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What the Health? From KFF Health News: Part II: The State of the Abortion Debate 50 Years After ‘Roe’

January 27, 2023 Podcast

In Part II of this special two-part episode, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Sarah Varney of KHN join KHN chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to discuss how the abortion debate has evolved since the Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to abortion in 2022, and what might be the flashpoints for 2023. Also, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their most memorable reproductive health stories from the last year.

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Guía para entender a las subvariantes de ómicron

By Louis Jacobson, PolitiFact May 6, 2022 KFF Health News Original

¿Qué tan diferentes son estas subvariantes entre sí? ¿Puede la infección por una subvariante proteger a alguien de la infección por otra? Y, ¿qué tan bien funcionan contra estas variantes las vacunas que se desarrollaron antes de la aparición de ómicron?

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Appeals Court Revives Sutter Health $411 Million Antitrust Class Action

June 5, 2024 Morning Briefing

The California health provider is accused of anticompetitive behavior that increased insurance costs and now must face a new trial. Also in the news: possible reforms for the 340B drug discount program, insurers address the affordable housing crisis, and more.

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After $1B Donation, Johns Hopkins Medical School Is Now Free For Most

July 9, 2024 Morning Briefing

Billionaire Mike Bloomberg, who earned a degree in engineering from Johns Hopkins in 1964, offered the gift in an attempt to ease the nation’s “serious” shortage of doctors. Free tuition begins this fall for any med student whose family earns less than $300,000 a year.

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Viewpoints: H-1B Visa Fee Unfairly Targets Critical Indian-Born Doctors; Autistic People Don’t Need To Be Cured

September 25, 2025 Morning Briefing

Opinion writers tackle these public health issues.

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Concerns Rise Over Vitamin B3 And Link To Heart Health Risks

February 20, 2024 Morning Briefing

News outlets report on worrying results from a study that linked niacin — vitamin B3 — with increased risks of heart attack and stroke. The vitamin is, by law, added to cereal products. Also in the news: lab-grown testicles; inflammatory bowel disease drugs; and more.

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Social Media Is Fueling Enthusiasm for New Weight Loss Drugs. Are Regulators Watching?

By Darius Tahir and Hannah Norman April 18, 2023 KFF Health News Original

Online platforms are overflowing with testimonials for GLP-1s. The drugs show promise for inducing weight loss, but many aren’t FDA-approved for that use.

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Perspectives: Every Presidential Candidate Should Prioritize Affordable Prescriptions; It’s Time To Reform 340B

September 18, 2024 Morning Briefing

Read recent commentary about pharmaceutical issues.

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GSK’s Widely Used RSV Shot Retains 43% Potency In Third Year, Data Show

October 9, 2024 Morning Briefing

Meanwhile, demand for vaccines targeting respiratory syncytial virus are down in the U.S. Also, if you are uncertain about whether you might have covid or the flu, the newly approved at-home Healgen Rapid Check COVID-19/Flu A&B Antigen Test can give you results in 15 minutes.

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Viewpoints: $4B In NIH Funding Cuts Will Affect Health Care For All Of Us; Prevention Is Key To Ending Bird Flu

February 11, 2025 Morning Briefing

Editorial writers delve into these public health issues.

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An Arm and a Leg: Revisiting ‘Christmas In July’

By Dan Weissmann December 23, 2024 Podcast

From the archives of “An Arm and a Leg”: a family tragedy, a 40-year tradition, and a million dollars in medical debt erased.

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‘It’s Becoming Too Expensive to Live’: Anxious Older Adults Try to Cope With Limited Budgets

By Judith Graham September 7, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Three women explain how life’s surprises can catapult their efforts to carefully manage limited budgets and lead to financial distress.

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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: On Government Spending, Congress Decides Not to Decide

September 29, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Congress has once again decided not to decide how to fund the federal government in time for the start of the fiscal year, racing toward a midnight Sept. 30 deadline to pass a stopgap bill that would keep the lights on for two more months. However, it does appear the FDA’s program that gets drugmakers to help fund some of the agency’s review staff will be renewed in time to stop pink slips from being sent. Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Rachel Cohrs of Stat, and Victoria Knight of Axios join KHN’s Julie Rovner to discuss these topics and more. Also this week, Rovner interviews filmmaker Cynthia Lowen, whose new documentary, “Battleground,” explores how anti-abortion forces played the long game to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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‘MAHA’ Update: FDA Dumps 8 Food Dyes; CDC Rethinks Kids’ Covid Vax

April 23, 2025 Morning Briefing

The additives that will be phased out — but not outright banned — are Blue 1 and 2, Green 3, Red 40, Yellow 5 and 6, Orange B, and Citrus Red 2. In other “Make America Healthy Again” news: The CDC might pull the covid vaccine off its list of recommended vaccines for kids, and the NIH says it won’t have answers about the cause of autism until next year.

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Your Flu Shot Is Missing Something This Year — And You’ll Be Glad For It

October 18, 2024 Morning Briefing

NPR reports that the FDA is not including one of the strains of flu — B/Yamagata — in this year’s recipe because covid prevention initiatives appear to have pushed it into oblivion. Meanwhile, whooping cough reaches its highest spread since 2014. Have you updated your Tdap shot? You need it every 10 years, the CDC says.

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Buy and Bust: After Platinum Health Took Control of Noble Sites, All Hospital Workers Were Fired

By Sarah Jane Tribble September 22, 2022 KFF Health News Original

Two Missouri towns are without operating hospitals after private equity-backed Noble Health left both facilities mired in debt, lawsuits, and federal investigations. The hospitals’ new operator, Platinum Health, agreed to buy them in April for $2 and laid off the last employees in early September.

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