STAT+: Democrats blast Biden administration over Alzheimer’s drug plans
WASHINGTON — Ahead of a major Food and Drug Administration meeting on a new Alzheimer’s…
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CDC comes under fire for inadequate information about its Covid response
WASHINGTON – Republicans aren’t impressed with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s reorganization plan,…
‘Tantamount to extortion:’ Merck sues U.S. government over Medicare negotiation program
WASHINGTON — Merck on Tuesday sued to stop the federal government from implementing a new…
STAT+: Medicare taps acting official to head up its new drug price negotiations
WASHINGTON — Medicare has chosen a Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation official to temporarily…
STAT+: More than 200 FDA staffers have retired in less than a year
WASHINGTON — More than 230 people have retired from the Food and Drug Administration since…
STAT+: Ted Love, BIO’s first Black board chair, aims to rehab biotech’s image in Washington
WASHINGTON — Ted Love has pretty much done everything there is to do in biotech. He’s…
Biden plans to pick Mandy Cohen to lead CDC
WASHINGTON — President Biden plans to tap longtime federal and state health official Mandy Cohen…
Medicare holds firm on Alzheimer’s drug coverage policy
WASHINGTON — Despite pressure from Congress and advocates, Medicare isn’t changing its coverage plan for…
STAT+: Debt ceiling deal could mean cancer, disease research cuts, advocates warn
WASHINGTON — Researchers and health care advocates are warning that the debt ceiling deal would…
STAT+: Republicans want to crack down on pricey health regulations, but there are major loopholes
WASHINGTON — At first glance, the debt ceiling deal that Republicans struck with the White…
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STAT+: CVS warns PBM reforms ‘could lead to higher costs’
As Congress considers wide-ranging reforms to pharmacy benefit managers, a top executive at CVS Health,…
House Republicans demand career scientist explain pathogen research
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are ratcheting up pressure on federal agencies’ pandemic response with an…
Sen. Elizabeth Warren probes abortion access amid states’ patchwork plans
WASHINGTON – Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is launching a fresh round of questioning on states’…
How Medicare’s Aduhelm decision revived old questions about new drugs
This article is adapted from the latest STAT Report: Decoding Medicare: 10 key coverage decisions…
STAT+: With Fat Joe concerts and Super Bowl ads, a cadre of billionaires is mounting an unorthodox campaign against hospitals
WASHINGTON — At a waterfront concert in one of this city’s swankiest neighborhoods, rappers Busta…
STAT+: Matt Eyles, CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans, to depart
Matt Eyles, CEO of America’s Health Insurance Plans, is leaving by this October, the lobbying…
STAT+: Congress took on high drug prices in Medicare. Now Biden wants to take it to Medicaid
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration wants to help states control Medicaid prescription drug costs by…
STAT+: Congress highlighted a chemo drug’s price to blast PBMs — but it’s not a PBM issue
WASHINGTON — Congress blasted drug middlemen at a hearing Tuesday, with multiple lawmakers pointing to…
FDA budget battles, prisons’ sobering Covid response & BIO’s CEO search is on
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‘Worse than what we thought’: New data reveals deeper problems with the Bureau of Prisons’ Covid response
WASHINGTON — The incarcerated people at Federal Medical Center Devens should have been some of…
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STAT+: FDA official offers insights into whether gene therapy makers could use common manufacturing process
WASHINGTON — A Food and Drug Administration official provided some insights this week into the…
STAT+: New Biden science agency ARPA-H launches first program, targeting bone regrowth
WASHINGTON — A multibillion-dollar science agency tasked with slashing through research bureaucracy will start its…
Biden drug czar: ‘All options are on the table’ for expanding methadone access
WASHINGTON — The federal government is aggressively exploring ways to increase access to methadone, a…
Senators probing largest Medicare Advantage plans over how algorithms factor in care denials
Senators warned the country’s largest Medicare Advantage insurers at a hearing on Wednesday that they…
STAT+: House panel takes first steps toward reining in hospitals with ‘site-neutral’ changes
WASHINGTON — A key House panel on Wednesday advanced several health care bills on Wednesday,…
Federal judges question FDA authority in abortion pill hearing
A federal appeals court heard opening arguments Wednesday in a case that could determine the…
STAT+: Could an upcoming Supreme Court case make the FDA slower?
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration could take longer to write regulations and make…
Depression hits new high among Americans, per survey
WASHINGTON — More than a quarter of American adults are depressed, a 10% surge from…
STAT+: AI leaders issue a plea to Congress: Regulate us, and quickly
During an extraordinary hearing Tuesday, members of a Senate subcommittee called for aggressive regulation of…
AstraZeneca is third member to leave PhRMA in five months
WASHINGTON — AstraZeneca has decided to leave the brand drug lobbying powerhouse PhRMA halfway through…
STAT+: Biden drug czar to summon naloxone makers to White House to discuss pricing
WASHINGTON — The White House is summoning naloxone manufacturers for a roundtable focused on the…
Biden nominates Monica Bertagnolli to head NIH
WASHINGTON — President Biden on Monday officially announced that he would nominate National Cancer Institute…
STAT+: Senate panel passes a suite of drug pricing bills — but fails to advance one major PBM reform
WASHINGTON – The Senate health committee on Thursday passed a package of bills aimed at…
Key House Democrat demands NIH answer for pace of long Covid research
WASHINGTON — A powerful Democratic lawmaker is interrogating the National Institutes of Health over its…
STAT+: Telework helps FDA compete for scientists. What if it’s no longer an option?
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration needs to hire scores of in-demand scientists, and…
STAT+: Insulin makers, PBMs echo old finger-pointing in Senate hearing
A Senate hearing on high insulin costs billed as a blockbuster showdown with drugmakers and…
Who’s in charge of the White House Covid response after the emergency ends?
WASHINGTON — The White House isn’t quite ready to launch its new pandemic response office…
STAT+: Q&A: Sen. Sanders on insulin costs and his committee’s generic drug kerfuffle
WASHINGTON — Wednesday’s Senate hearing on high costs for insulin “is not the end” of…
Gail Wilensky on the Geisinger deal, the earnings bonanza, and medical credit cards proliferate
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STAT+: Senator pushes NIH for ‘formal’ review of Covid response
WASHINGTON — Republicans continued to press top health officials on the coronavirus response during a…
STAT+: New Eli Lilly Alzheimer’s data poses Medicare coverage conundrum
WASHINGTON — Eli Lilly’s latest anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s treatment seems to slow the disease, the company announced…
STAT+: Juul execs shower House Oversight chair with campaign cash, just as he launches probe into FDA’s moves on e-cigarettes
WASHINGTON — Juul executives wrote personal checks to the head of the House Oversight Committee,…
STAT+: What the Covid-19 pandemic can teach us about drug patents
Inventing treatments and vaccines is only part of the battle in an epidemic and pandemic,…
DEA will delay telemedicine restrictions for buprenorphine, Adderall and other drugs
The Drug Enforcement Administration is holding off on making sweeping changes to the way certain…
RJ Reynolds is threatening to sue vape shops for selling flavored vapes
WASHINGTON – The tobacco giant RJ Reynolds is threatening to sue small vape shops if…
STAT+: Biden’s pick to lead NIH stares down an increasingly political litany of questions
WASHINGTON — President Biden’s presumed pick to lead the National Institutes of Health, Monica Bertagnolli,…
STAT+: Disagreements and digs upend an otherwise bipartisan hearing on PBM reform
WASHINGTON — The first Senate health committee markup under Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and ranking…
STAT+: Senators delay start date for possible PBM reforms
WASHINGTON — Pharmacy benefit managers may have gotten themselves a slight reprieve. Senators drafting reforms to…
Pennsylvania set to ban supervised drug use sites, in setback for harm reduction
Pennsylvania lawmakers are set to pass a new ban on supervised drug consumption, effectively ending…
Biden officials propose slate of Medicaid transparency changes
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday rolled out proposals to set national standards for…