House passes site-neutral policy, transparency, PBM reform package
WASHINGTON — The House passed a relatively major health care package late Monday, an end-of-year…
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STAT+: UnitedHealth executive to head health insurance group AHIP
WASHINGTON — An executive at insurance giant UnitedHealth Group is slated to be the next…
Morning Rounds: 3D-printed organs, antimicrobial resistance in Ukraine, and other major health stories of the day
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STAT+: Sen. Warren pushes for more data on Medicare Advantage coverage hurdles, denials
A bipartisan group of senators is urging the Biden administration to beef up the amount…
Diabetes ‘epidemic’ gets a Senate hearing
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STAT Health News: Abortion ‘companion networks,’ NEJM’s racist past, and other stories you need to read
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STAT+: To lower drug prices, White House takes new aim at pharma patents
WASHINGTON — The White House is throwing its support behind a controversial authority that allows…
Opinion: Listen: Rep. Raul Ruiz on going from the emergency room to Congress
Before he joined Congress, Rep. Raul Ruiz, a Democrat from California, worked in another chaotic…
STAT+: Senate panel considers Medicare policy fixes to drug shortages
WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate Finance Committee took their first steps today toward using…
Carmot’s chance of beating the odds in the biotech market just ended
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STAT+: Official: FDA needs staff influx to meet gene therapy needs
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration needs dozens more reviewers if it wants its…
STAT+: Senate Republicans throw cold water on so-called site-neutral hospital pay cuts
WASHINGTON — On its face, a minor policy to make sure Medicare pays hospitals the…
Opinion: PEPFAR has been a lifeline in Ukraine. Now it’s under threat
In Ukraine, a little bit of good news can go a long way, and the…
CDC Director Mandy Cohen unscathed in her first congressional testimony
WASHINGTON — House Republicans sought Thursday to hammer the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s…
STAT+: Biden defends Trump-era drug pricing rule on copay accumulators
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is appealing a court ruling against a Trump-era regulation that…
STAT+: White House official dings Bristol-Myers Squibb for fighting off generic competition
WASHINGTON — A top White House official on Tuesday delivered a pointed attack at a…
STAT+: Scott Gottlieb, Trump FDA chief, questions whether there’s a Republican philosophy on health care
WASHINGTON — One of the Republican party’s most prominent health care thinkers doesn’t know what…
STAT+: Biden invokes Cold War-era law to stem drug shortages
WASHINGTON — President Biden is using a Cold War-era law to stem drug shortages by…
STAT+: House Republicans call CDC director to testify
WASHINGTON — A House committee that has sparred with the Biden administration over its handling…
STAT+: Prominent pharmaceutical industry ally Anna Eshoo to retire
WASHINGTON — Rep. Anna Eshoo, one of the House of Representatives’ top Democrats on health…
STAT+: Sen. Bernie Sanders publicly pressures Merck, J&J, and Bristol Myers Squibb to testify on drug pricing
WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats, led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Tuesday mounted a public…
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STAT+: Delay of eye drop recall highlights FDA’s impotence on the issue
WASHINGTON — It took nearly three weeks for a maker of eye drops to recall…
STAT+: House panel passes PBM reforms, ratcheting up chance for passage
WASHINGTON — Panels in both the House and Senate have now passed restrictions to drug…
STAT+: House moves to limit so-called gain-of-function research
WASHINGTON — House lawmakers late Tuesday voted to attach a U.S. ban on controversial infectious…
What health policies could hitch a ride on a spending bill?
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Opinion: Congress must reauthorize the National Advisory Committee for Seniors and Disasters
With the election of Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker of the House, the urgent and…
STAT+: Medicare’s new pay boost for primary care is angering specialists
WASHINGTON — Doctors are staring down a cut to their Medicare pay next year, and…
Medicare eligibility is tripping up the GOP presidential candidates
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Senator floats new models to manage costs of weight loss drugs like Ozempic
WASHINGTON — With Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy and Ozempic hitting blockbuster sales and a new rival…
Republicans divided over financial crisis in Medicare
WASHINGTON — Republicans angling for the party’s presidential nomination on Wednesday grappled with the reality…
STAT+: Senate panel clears PBM reforms, safety-net hospital payments
WASHINGTON — A prominent Senate panel on Wednesday passed a new package of health policy…
Senate confirms NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli
Longtime cancer doctor Monica Bertagnolli is finally heading to the National Institutes of Health director’s…
Sen. Bernie Sanders moves toward another hearing with pharma CEOs
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STAT+: Drug shortages and the supply chain are a matter of national security, experts say
WASHINGTON – The pandemic showed how fragile the supply chain can be, and to fix…
STAT+: Democrats push government to police algorithms in Medicare Advantage
House Democrats are raising concerns with the Biden administration that Medicare Advantage plans need better…
Shrinking COVID vaccine sales has Moderna course-correcting
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STAT+: Key Senate panel to consider PBM, drug pricing reform package
WASHINGTON — A key Senate panel announced it will consider more policies to regulate pharmacy…
Senate bill would permanently extend Covid-era rules on telehealth addiction treatment
A bipartisan group of senators this week introduced a bill that would permanently allow health…
Regeneron gene therapy improves hearing in child
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STAT+: The health care issue Democrats can’t solve: hospital reform
WASHINGTON — Democrats unilaterally drove major reforms to the health insurance and the pharmaceutical industries…
STAT+: Europe takes steps to head off drug shortages, even as U.S. proposals stall
European drug regulators are updating regulations to stem drug shortages. Are there lessons for Americans?…
Senate committee advances Biden’s NIH nominee Monica Bertagnolli
A Senate health panel on Wednesday voted to send President Biden’s nominee to lead the…
STAT+: House committee hearing kicks off potential doctor pay reforms in Medicare
WASHINGTON — The House Energy & Commerce health subcommittee kicked off its first hearing in…
STAT+: Actually, hospital price transparency does save money, advocate highlights
BOSTON — For all those who think hospital price transparency will not save money, Cynthia…
STAT+: Senate Finance targets Medicare Advantage brokers
Senate Finance Committee members from both parties took aim today at insurance brokers that sell…
STAT+: NIH confirmation hearing highlights just how divisive the agency’s portfolio has become
Monica Bertagnolli, President Biden’s nominee to lead the National Institutes of Health, spent her confirmation…
STAT+: Bernie Sanders bashes nonprofit hospitals over their tax breaks
WASHINGTON — Hospitals get tax breaks that are worth far more than the value of…
Robert F. Kennedy is pitching centrism on health care, even on abortion
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The future of health care in the House
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STAT+: 3 questions for the future of Biden’s cancer moonshot
WASHINGTON — The latest phase of President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative leaves open a few…