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CMO
Do Pediatricians Recommend Vaccines to Make a Profit? There's Not Much Money in It
A closer examination shows that pediatric practices make little profit ? and sometimes lose money ? on vaccines.
Innovation
As Measles Exploded, Officials in Texas Looked to CDC Scientists. Under Trump, No One Answered.
The outbreak soon became the worst the United States has endured in over three decades.
Payer
Trump's Rollback of Rules for Mental Health Coverage Could Lead More Americans to Go Without Care
The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying...
Technology
Can New DEA Leadership Resolve the Telemedicine Prescription Debate?
A widely panned proposal to regulate virtual prescriptions for controlled drugs isn?t going anywhere. It?s time to bring federal regulators...
CFO
$50B Rural Health 'Slush Fund' Faces Questions, Skepticism
The Rural Health Transformation Program hands states $10 billion a year for five years starting in fiscal year 2026.
CMO
RFK Jr. Wants to Revolutionize a Program that Supports Childhood Immunizations. The Results Could Be Catastrophic.
Dramatic changes to the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program risk driving drugmakers from the market, threatening access to shots.
CMO
Feds Investigate Hospitals Over Religious Exemptions from Gender-Affirming Care
It's the first time HHS has explicitly claimed that the Church Amendments 'allow providers to refuse gender-affirming care or to...
Revenue Cycle
AHA Claps Back at Drug Companies in Conflict Over 340B Program
Drug companies are more likely than hospitals to violate 340B regulations, according to a recent American Hospital Association report.
Payer
Four Ways Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill' Would Undermine Access to Obamacare
Millions of people might drop or lose coverage by 2034 as a result, according to the nonpartisan CBO.
Payer
Asthma Sufferers Could Be at Greater Risk if Trump Cuts Health Program
Asthma experts fear the cumulative impact of the reductions could result in more ER visits and deaths.
CMO
RFK Jr. Says Healthy Pregnant Women Don't Need COVID Boosters. What the Science Says.
Pregnant women who contracted COVID-19 were more likely to become severely ill and to be hospitalized than non-pregnant women.
CMO
Language Service Cutbacks Raise Fear of Medical Errors, Misdiagnoses, Deaths
Such policy and funding changes could leave some without lifesaving care, particularly children and seniors.