Dr. Mandy Cohen, former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, will replace outgoing CDC director Rochelle Walensky. Bryan Anderson/Ap hide caption toggle caption on/off Bryan Anderson/Ap Dr. Mandy Cohen, former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, will replace outgoing CDC director Rochelle Walensky. Bryan Anderson/Ap … Read more
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The plans require members to ask for charitable treatment before submitting bills. A new report has provided the first nationwide tally of Americans who rely on shared health care plans — arrangements through which people agree to pay each other’s medical bills — and the number is higher than previously realized. The Colorado Division of … Read more
This resource is part of AMA’s Debunking Regulatory Myths series, supporting AMA’s practice transformation efforts to equip clinicians and their care teams with resources to reduce the guesswork and administrative burden. All test results must be submitted and reviewed by the patient’s primary care physician (PCP). Debunk the myth Debunk the myth As far as … Read more
Comment on this storyComment At first, it often seemed like my mother’s oncologist, with his mostly bald head and dry sense of humor, was the God of our family. God in the sense that he was omniscient, keeper of secrets, bearer of good or bad news. For the first two years of my mom’s cancer, … Read more
Gov.Ron DeSantisit has not placed any deep or sweeping vetoes on health care projects as part of the nearly $511 million in spending items in the new state budget. DeSantis vetoed $14.55 million directly from the health care portion of the new $116.5 billion budget, with the largest single item being eliminated from that nearly … Read more
WASHINGTON DC [6.15.23] Today, US Senators Tina Smith (D-MN) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure cancer patients receiving oral medications are not hit by thousands of dollars in unaffordable out-of-pocket costs that health plans routinely cover for patients undergoing traditional IV chemotherapy treatments. They Cancer Drug Equality Act responds to recent improvements … Read more
Derek van Amerongen, MD, MS: If each of you could share 1 or 2 pieces of advice for our listeners in this area of cervical and breast cancer and their role and interaction with racial disparities, what would it be? Soyini Hawkins, MD, MPH, FACOG: For cervical and breast cancer, I would say I would … Read more
If a healthcare organization wanted to help patients in financial difficulty, what would be the best route? Should they be asking patients to demonstrate financial need by filling out forms and sharing tax returns, then waiting to hear if they qualify? Or could they just find out what medical bills these patients already have and … Read more
The Oregon Senate is seen during a vote in the state capitol in Salem, Oregon on Thursday, June 15, 2023. Enough Republican members showed up in the Oregon Senate on Thursday to end a six-week strike that it disrupted the work of the legislature and blocked hundreds of bills, including some on abortion, transgender healthcare … Read more