STAT+: Lawmakers eye partial increase for Medicare doctor pay
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are considering increasing doctors’ Medicare pay in an upcoming government funding package,…
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The need to know biotech news stories today
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STAT+: Judge tosses PhRMA lawsuit over Medicare power to negotiate drug prices
WASHINGTON — A federal district judge on Monday granted the Biden administration’s request to dismiss…
Psychedelic investment continues to ramp up
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STAT+: States are ramping up scrutiny of health transactions, as more provider groups look for buyers
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum has bought an untold number of physician practices over the years. It…
STAT+: FTC doubles down in Welsh Carson anesthesia case to limit private equity’s physician buyouts
Lina Khan’s Federal Trade Commission is eager to make Big Physician a lot smaller. Last…
STAT+: Senators start work on Medicare physician payment reform
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators is starting work on legislation to reform how…
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Does Moderna’s RSV vaccine lose efficacy faster than others?
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STAT+: Key House Republican on health care plans exit from Congress
WASHINGTON — Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, the chair of a crucial House committee that handles…
STAT+: Senate Democrats push for stronger rules around AI in Medicare Advantage
Senate Democrats on Thursday said Medicare should take more urgent and aggressive action to prevent…
In a showy hearing, Bernie Sanders gets few answers about lower drug prices
WASHINGTON — Call it Sen. Bernie Sanders’ prescription drug pricing theater. The hearing, featuring Merck…
Gilead sours on the ‘don’t eat me’ business
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New pharma CEOs in the hot seat
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STAT+: More than half the slots on a key vaccine advisory panel are vacant. Where’s HHS?
A critical government advisory committee charged with charting U.S. vaccination policy appears to be atrophying,…
STAT+: Government warns Medicare Advantage insurers not to deny care based on AI
In recent months, the federal government has repeatedly told Medicare Advantage insurers that they cannot…
STAT+: House panel passes key PBM reform for sliver of commercial market
WASHINGTON — A House panel passed a bipartisan bill to ban drug middlemen from charging…
CDC and social media: The new misinformation war
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Supreme Court to weigh whether Covid misinformation is protected speech
WASHINGTON — As social media sites were flooded with misleading posts about vaccine safety, mask…
STAT+: The lone Democrat willing to weaken Medicare’s power to negotiate drug prices
WASHINGTON — Two Republican lawmakers who introduced legislation to water down the Inflation Reduction Act’s…
Medical devices with screens aren’t accessible to the blind. Congress has chance to change that
Katie Keim was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1967 when she was eight, well…
STAT+: Senate working group proposes 340B reforms
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of senators released a draft of legislation to resolve controversial…
Texas Medical Board under pressure to define emergency exception to abortion ban
Amid ongoing uncertainty about when abortions are permissible in Texas, the state’s medical board is…
STAT+: Biden administration makes opening offers in Medicare drug price negotiations
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is making its opening offers to pharmaceutical companies in its…
STAT+: Medicare Advantage insurers face slight proposed cut to 2025 payments
The federal government is cutting the average benchmark payments for 2025 Medicare Advantage plans by…
STAT+: Judge skeptical of arguments against Medicare drug price negotiation
WILMINGTON, Del. — Today was the first time that a federal judge asked questions in-person…
Congressmen: This Covid hearing ‘could have been an email’
WASHINGTON — House Republicans have repeatedly accused Biden health officials of withholding and censoring documents…
STAT+: FDA’s Woodcock reflects on more than 30 years at agency — and hints at what’s next
WASHINGTON — It’s the end of an era for the Food and Drug Administration’s longtime…
Can the government ask social media sites to take down Covid misinformation? SCOTUS will weigh in
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will this March hear arguments centered on the government’s role…
Supreme Court slates abortion pill case for March
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear arguments about access to the abortion medication mifepristone…
Pricey sickle cell treatments raise daunting new challenges for Medicaid programs
Living with sickle cell disease has not been easy on Kourtney Cunningham. The genetic blood…
STAT+: Merck, Johnson & Johnson CEOs agree to testify in Congress on high drug prices, avoiding Bernie Sanders’ subpoena
WASHINGTON — Merck CEO Robert Davis and Johnson and Johnson CEO Joaquin Duato have agreed…
STAT+: Democrats urge government to rein in Medicare Advantage overpayments and denials
The Biden administration is about to set the ground rules for next year’s Medicare Advantage…
Merck CEO refused to testify in Senate because he’s not an expert in drug pricing, Bernie Sanders says
WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday jabbed the CEO of Merck for telling congressional…
Zyn scrutiny from Sen. Chuck Schumer prompts an unlikely culture war
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants the federal government to investigate Zyn nicotine pouches….
STAT+: Key Senate panel considers Medicare bonuses for hospitals that prevent drug shortages
WASHINGTON — A key Senate committee is proposing that Medicare pay bonuses to hospitals that…
Another step toward new drugs for Parkinson’s
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Lilly’s gene therapy restores hearing in an 11-year-old, paving way for more treatment
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STAT+: FDA OKs — but doesn’t require — a non-cancer-causing chemical for sterilizing devices
The chemical used to sterilize half of all medical devices in the United States is…
Ahead of Medicare drug price reform, pharma’s drug pricing has a Streisand effect
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White House pharmacy under the microscope
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STAT+: Pharma’s attack on Medicare drug price negotiation might benefit Biden
WASHINGTON — Pharmaceutical companies are doing anything they can to stop President Biden’s Medicare program…
The White House has a pharmacy — and it’s been a mess, a new investigation found
There’s a pharmacy in the White House — or, at least, there’s a sign that…
Investigators fault Lilly plant for manufacturing issues
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STAT+: FDA sets aggressive deadline for inspection overhaul
WASHINGTON — Food and Drug Administration officials hope to finish this year a massive overhaul…
Feds bar Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes from government health programs
WASHINGTON — Theranos founder and ex-CEO Elizabeth Holmes is banned from federal health programs for…
The Senate health committee looks into its first subpoena in 40 years
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Opinion: Clogged arteries: the unseen cost of road-blocking protests
Recent events in Israel and Gaza have sparked a wave of protests, with some activists…
STAT+: The FDA’s diagnostics chief, who led through Covid, has retired
Timothy Stenzel, the federal regulator who led the Food and Drug Administration’s diagnostics division during…
STAT+: Bernie Sanders proposes subpoenas of CEOs of J&J, Merck on drug prices
WASHINGTON — Senate health committee chair Bernie Sanders has taken a step toward subpoenaing the…
STAT+: Congress’ negotiations over doc pay, health centers fell apart ahead of spending extension
WASHINGTON — Negotiations to add extra health care policies to Congress’ stopgap funding bill fell…