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December 11 2024
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
ProPublica
For most working Americans, paying their share of the taxes that fund Medicare is an unavoidable fact of life.
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December 10 2024
UnitedHealthcare Shooting Sparks Conversations About Health Care in America
VICE
The recent murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has invoked conversations about the disparities in the medical industry and the inaccessibility of decent coverage.
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December 9 2024
Why America’s drug stores are vanishing
Axios
Nearly 1 in 3 U.S. retail pharmacies closed over a decade in a series of cutbacks that weighed heaviest on communities of color already grappling with health disparities and barriers to care.
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November 1 2024
New Patient Safety Initiatives Could Change Standard of Care
Relias Media/Healthcare Risk Management
New initiatives from the Biden administration could result in improvements to patient safety, but they also may create new compliance burdens and change the standard of care used in malpractices cases.
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September 12 2024
Should the Medicare Advantage window be widened?
Becker's Payer Issues
Seniors are given the opportunity to switch Medicare Advantage plans annually, but some evidence suggests that committing to multi-year contracts could lead to better health outcomes.
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December 11 2023
How big employers can become health care gamechangers
BenefitsPRO Magazine
Keeping just one newborn out of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) could bring joy to a family and save hundreds of thousands of dollars in health…
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December 8 2023
FDA approves CRISPR-based therapy for sickle cell disease
Axios
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first therapy based on CRISPR gene-editing technology to address the painful effects of sickle cell disease.
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December 6 2023
CVS drug pricing overhaul signals a broader industry shift
Axios
CVS Health’s new plan to make the way it prices prescription drugs more predictable is the latest shift by pharmacy giants to overhaul their business models amid increasing pressure from policymakers and industry upstarts.
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