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MedPAC: Medicare Paid MA Plans $38 billion for Non-Medicare Services in 2024
(MedPage Today) -- Last year, Medicare Advantage (MA) plans spent $38 billion on services traditional Medicare doesn't pay for, such as gym memberships, meals, transportation, and dental care.
Read MoreSTAT+: Inside U.S. health agencies, workers confront chaos and questions as operations become unglued
The Trump administration’s remaking of HHS — in a matter of weeks — is sparking basic questions about how parts of the agency and those it oversees can continue to…
Read MoreSTAT+: RFK Jr. attempts to rally FDA workers to his MAHA agenda
Trump's health secretary told FDA workers that tackling childhood chronic diseases should be the agency's chief priority.
Read MoreTrump Administration Delays Plan to Limit Pricey Bandages
Medicare spending on “skin substitutes” reached $10 billion last year. A leading seller made a large donation to President Trump’s election campaign.
Read MoreSoaring Temps Spell Trouble for Kidney Transplant Recipients
(MedPage Today) -- BOSTON -- Exposure to high temperatures may be renally taxing for kidney transplant recipients, a researcher reported here.
Read MoreStandard Antibiotic Ordering Improves With Electronic Prompts in More Settings
(MedPage Today) -- Computerized prompts recommending standard-spectrum empiric antibiotics for low-risk patients in the hospital with either skin and soft tissue or abdominal infection reduced use of
Read MoreAXS-12 Reduces Cataplexy, Sleepiness in Narcolepsy
(MedPage Today) -- SAN DIEGO -- AXS-12 (reboxetine), an investigational treatment for narcolepsy, reduced weekly cataplexy attacks and in some cases provided complete remission, the phase III SYMPH
Read MoreSTAT+: Trump fired the top HHS watchdog. She says the future of health care oversight is grim if partisanship wins out
Before Trump fired her, Christi Grimm's office had recovered $30 billion for taxpayers.
Read MorePig Kidney Removed From Alabama Woman After Organ Rejection
Towana Looney lived with the kidney longer than any other transplant patient had tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal.
Read MoreOverdiagnosis debate should not ignore social causes of mental illness | Letters
Dr Sebastian Kraemer ponders indifference to the developmental origins of mental disorder, Woody Caan says Labour needs a vision, while Jeremy Seymour says to not work is bad for one’s healthMental
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