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Payer
Mostly False: Trump Exaggerates Speed and Certainty of Prescription Drug Price Reductions
Under a new executive order, prescription drug prices will be reduced 'almost immediately.' ? President Donald Trump, in a May...
CMO
Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies
More than a hundred rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021 owing to shortages of staff and money.
Innovation
Can an AI 'Nurse' Improve Maternal Health Outcomes?
A new project in Illinois aims to connect at risk mothers-to-be with a remote patient monitoring platform that includes a...
Telehealth
Dead Zone: Flawed Federal Programs Maroon Rural Americans in Telehealth Blackouts
Years of Republican and Democratic administrations have tried to fix the nation's broadband woes.
Payer
Medicaid Payments Barely Keep Hospital Mental Health Units Afloat. Federal Cuts Could Sink Them.
The U.S. already faces a deep shortage of inpatient mental health services.
CEO
Contributed Content: The Lifeline of Small Towns: Protecting Rural Hospitals from Closure
Strategic, bipartisan policy solutions are urgently needed to keep rural hospitals open, says this provider CEO and COO.
CMO
CA's Primary Care Shortage Persists Despite Ambitious Moves to Close Gap
The shortage is tied largely to the lower pay and relative lack of prestige associated with primary care.
Payer
SDOH in the Anti-DEI Era: The New Call to Action
Payers are facing possible CMS funding cuts to Medicaid waiver programs and possible threats to SDOH data collection.
Payer
Will SDOH Follow DEI's Decline? 3 Warning Signs for Healthcare Leaders
Discover the three critical signals every healthcare leader and payer needs to watch ? before reform efforts possibly unravel.
Payer
RFK Jr. Struggles to Navigate Frustrated Supporters and a Demanding Boss
Kennedy's allies say he's become almost inaccessible since his confirmation and has made glacial progress advancing MAHA goals.
CFO
Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.'s NIH Slashed Science Funding Across States that Backed Trump
The terminations are sparing no part of the country, politically or geographically.
Pharma
An Indian Drugmaker, Investigated by ProPublica Last Year, Has Recalled Two Dozen Medications Sold to U.S. Patients
FDA inspectors found serious problems at a Glenmark factory in India that manufactured the recalled drugs. Another medication made there...