Noam N. Levey and Aneri Pattani report for Kaiser Health News on how people’s medical debt...
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Prescription drug middlemen, PBMs, will always drive up drug...
There’s a move afoot in Congress to do something about prescription drug middlemen—Pharmacy...
CMS overpays Medicare Advantage plans and lets them keep the...
CMS last audited Medicare Advantage plans nine years ago, in 2013, and found millions of...
Pharma pours money into telehealth
One upside of the Covid-19 pandemic is that it has become much easier to see a doctor, if...
Colorado legalizes medicinal psychedelics
Olivia Goldhill writes for Stat NewsStat News on Colorado’s legalization of psychedelics...
Drug industry funnels money to Republican candidates who deny...
Ed Silverman reports for Stat News on pharmaceutical companies’ support for Republican candidates...
Telehealth companies prescribe ketamine online at some risk to...
Stat News reports on a rise in ketamine prescriptions via telehealth companies and the risk these...
New Medicare Advantage rules won’t stop the misleading...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that oversees Medicare, is...
Almost all states permit the sale of products containing the...
You might not know it, but even if you live in a state in which weed is illegal, you likely can...
Congress has the power to improve services at Social Security
Earlier this month, a front-page article in the Washington Post described the turmoil at Social...