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Health Spending Up 7.5% in 2023, CMS Says

Spending reached $4.9 trillion, with spending on physician and clinical services up 7.4%

Dec 18, 2024
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SCOTUS to Weigh State Moves to Cut Off Medicaid Funding to Planned Parenthood

South Carolina governor says that any public money "results in the subsidy of abortion"

Dec 18, 2024
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What Americans Think of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and His Health Stances

Is there support for his views?

Dec 18, 2024
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Experts Debate the Best Ways to Use Opioid Settlement Funds

Approaches include evidence-based treatments, drug courts, harm reduction

Dec 18, 2024
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Congress Agrees on Tentative Budget Deal; Mostly Reverses Docs' Medicare Pay Cut

Agreement would reduce a 2.8% cut to 0.3%, but doesn't include prior authorization reform

Dec 18, 2024
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RFK Jr. Meets With Senators; School Shooting Leaves 3 Dead; 'Uber for Nursing'?

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Dec 17, 2024
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Trump Says He'll Preserve Access to Polio Vaccine, Equivocated on Other Shots

President-elect also pledged to look at bringing down the costs of pharmaceuticals

Dec 16, 2024
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Trump Picks Should 'Steer Clear' of Undermining Polio Vaccine, Mitch McConnell Says

Senate Republican leader's statement appears to be directed at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Dec 16, 2024
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Randy Moss Has Cancer; Nancy Pelosi's Surgery; Possible Bird Flu Case Hospitalized

Health news and commentary gathered by app staff

Dec 16, 2024
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MedPod Today: CEO Murder Shows Industry Risks; RFK Jr. Conspiracies; Gold Card Laws

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Dec 13, 2024
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RFK Jr.'s Lawyer Asked FDA to Pull Polio Vaccine; Pollution-VTE Link; H5N1 in Cats

Health news and commentary gathered by app staff

Dec 13, 2024
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MedPAC Members Supportive of Upping Medicare Pay Rates Close to the Inflation Rate

Proposed recommendation would give extra pay bump to providers serving low-income beneficiaries

Dec 12, 2024
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Trump Nearly Backed 16-Week Federal Abortion Ban

And other highlights from president elect's interview with Time magazine

Dec 12, 2024
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