Texas judge strikes down major Obamacare provision protecting birth control, PrEP coverage
WASHINGTON — A federal judge Thursday reversed a major Obamacare provision requiring plans to cover…
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STAT+: Is there $21 billion left for Covid response, or $5 billion? The White House is using fuzzy math
WASHINGTON — How much money does the federal government still have set aside for the…
Republicans press Becerra on gender-affirming care, reproductive rights
WASHINGTON — Republicans hammered the health secretary in hearings Tuesday, previewing a line of health-…
Opinion: Biden’s budget boosts funds for future pandemics, but cuts them for current ones
The Biden administration has rightly talked a lot about pandemic preparedness. And to its credit,…
STAT+: Could a fight over cost-effectiveness upend Medicare drug price negotiation before it’s begun?
WASHINGTON — As Medicare drug price negotiation looms, congressional Republicans are scrambling to push through…
Former surgeon general Jerome Adams tries to outrun the shadow of the president he served
ST. LOUIS — Anesthesiologist and former U.S. surgeon general Jerome Adams has emerged as a…
STAT+: Senators interrogate health secretary Becerra on Alzheimer’s drug coverage
WASHINGTON — The future of Alzheimer’s treatments and coverage hung heavily over lawmakers’ Wednesday hearing…
Opinion: Americans should be able to register to vote when they apply for health insurance on HealthCare.gov
The last time you renewed your driver’s license, you likely had the opportunity to register…
STAT+: Federal Medicaid officials cajole states to auto-enroll beneficiaries as huge coverage losses loom
WASHINGTON — Federal Medicaid officials are working unusually closely with states to avoid enrollment glitches…
STAT+: The big-money Medicare policy that has hospitals worried this Congress
WASHINGTON — There are few things that get lawmakers in Washington salivating more than a wonky…
STAT+: Medicare explains how it will choose drugs for negotiation
WASHINGTON — Medicare laid out Thursday in the greatest detail yet how it will choose…
STAT+: White House chooses a location for ARPA-H — sort of
WASHINGTON — Officials at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health are moving ahead with…
STAT+: Biden administration to fine manufacturers of 27 medicines for price hikes
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will fine drugmakers who hiked prices faster than the rate…
STAT+: PhRMA chief dings health insurers over drug prices at their own conference
WASHINGTON — The head of the brand drug lobby used an in-person health insurance industry…
‘Leave the chocolate milk out of this’: School cooks, parents, kids push back on USDA effort to make lunches healthier
WASHINGTON — The feds are coming for your kids’ chocolate milk. At least, so says…
STAT+: Medicare will take R&D costs, effectiveness into account when it negotiates drug prices. But studies show that doesn’t affect prices
By law, Medicare will have to take a medication’s efficacy and its research and development…
STAT+: Biden makes big demands for cancer research and new ARPA-H agency
President Biden is banking on longtime bipartisan interest in eliminating cancer deaths to secure some…
Biden administration requests $20 billion cash infusion to bolster public health
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is calling for a big boost for public health funding…
STAT+: Biden makes drug pricing a central part of his deficit reduction plans
WASHINGTON – President Biden made lowering drug prices a key part of his budget with…
With a $11 billion price tag, the White House pitches a plan to end hepatitis C
WASHINGTON – The Biden administration is calling on Congress to fund a more than $11…
STAT+: Medicare chief on the new drug price negotiation program’s operations, hiring, and timelines
WASHINGTON — Medicare officials are still hammering out the technical specifics of how the massive…
Revamped Covid panel argues for research limits, even bans
WASHINGTON — Pathogen-altering research is back under fire here, as Republican lawmakers argue it should…
Becerra: Judge set to rule on abortion pill is ‘beginning to read the law’
WASHINGTON — Health secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday warned of dramatic consequences if a federal…
Science adviser Collins hints at a big White House ask to eliminate hepatitis C
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will request “significant investments” to help eliminate hepatitis C in…
Biden proposes expanding Medicare drug negotiation program
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration will propose expanding Democrats’ new drug pricing law by allowing…
Opinion: How the Biden administration’s Covid preparedness policies could narrow America’s political divide
The White House’s Covid Winter Preparedness Plan is a missed opportunity to narrow the divide…
HHS’ Becerra on enrolling in Medicare, annual Covid vaccines, and seniors’ mental health
WASHINGTON — The hottest birthday spot in town: A Hispanic senior center in northwest D.C….
STAT+: Health groups like AHA, PhRMA channeled millions into end-of-year legislative debates
WASHINGTON — Health care groups and their lobbyists spent big in the last few months…
STAT+: PhRMA terminates lobbying contract with White House official’s brother
WASHINGTON — The pharmaceutical industry lobbying group PhRMA has severed its contract with a lobbyist who…
STAT+: Congressional Medicare advisers warn of higher drug prices, despite new price negotiation
WASHINGTON — Despite the pharmaceutical industry’s loud complaints to the contrary, the new law directing…
Biden Covid adviser David Kessler to exit as pandemic response winds down
WASHINGTON — David Kessler, the D.C. veteran who guided government dispatches of millions of Covid-19…
STAT+: HHS will seek more input on its new Medicare drug price negotiations
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services is gearing up to start releasing…
Will America’s public health reckoning ever come?
WASHINGTON — After 9/11, Congress created an entirely new government agency to address the threat of…
STAT+: Insurers hint at suing Biden administration over plans for Medicare Advantage audits
Big health insurers who spoke at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference are gearing up to…
STAT+: HHS will decide how to resolve $1 billion in payments for 340B hospitals
WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services will get to decide how to…
Still fuming over the federal Covid response, Republicans redirect the House coronavirus committee
WASHINGTON — The House’s coronavirus committee will continue in a Republican-controlled chamber — but with…
STAT+: Rep. Jason Smith and the other Republicans leading health policy in the House
Rep. Jason Smith of Missouri will helm the powerful House Ways & Means Committee this…
Officials in Nebraska, South Dakota, Oklahoma begin to probe prisons’ hepatitis C treatment efforts
WASHINGTON — Members of Congress, state legislators, regulators, and legal advocates are calling on prisons…
STAT+: 3 drug pricing issues to watch in 2023
WASHINGTON — The legislative saga on drug pricing is mostly over for now, but drug…
STAT+: 3 trends to watch in hospitals and health insurance in 2023
For almost three years, hospitals and health insurers have been riding the waves of the…
After nine months, an update on NIH’s long Covid research
You’re reading the web edition of D.C. Diagnosis, STAT’s twice-weekly newsletter about the politics and…
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Pandemic response gets a permanent new home at the White House
WASHINGTON — The era of the rotating cast of public health czars at the White House…
STAT+: Biden administration takes aim at Medicare Advantage care denials, misleading ads
The Biden administration has unveiled its plan for attacking people’s chief concerns about privatized Medicare…
STAT+: AbbVie exits major pharmaceutical industry lobbying groups
WASHINGTON — The maker of one of the world’s most profitable medicines is exiting the…
Addiction treatment got easier during Covid. A new proposal would keep it that way
Addiction treatment got easier during the Covid-19 pandemic — and the Biden administration wants to…
STAT+: New Biden changes to Obamacare coverage for generics splits the industry
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration signaled Monday that it will require health plans on federal…
STAT+: Medicare chief: ‘Door is really open’ on coverage for new Alzheimer’s drug
Medicare is willing to re-evaluate its coverage of Alzheimer’s drugs in light of a new…
STAT+: Congress has a chance to close the FDA’s Theranos loophole
WASHINGTON – Theranos, and the company’s notoriously inaccurate blood tests, could potentially have been stopped…
STAT+: ARPA-H’s new director wants to go on a hiring spree
President Biden’s new health agency with a sweeping mandate to cure some of the system’s…
STAT+: FDA chief calls agency’s food program ‘under-supported, under-resourced’
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said the food side of the agency needs more attention Wednesday,…