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Colorado's Hospital Squeeze: What H.R.1's Medicaid Cuts Mean for Patients and Rural Care
Federal Medicaid cuts are colliding with Colorado's already fragile hospital finances. Lower reimbursements, new work ru...
Health Brief: AMA Billing-Code Suit, HHS Gender-Care Probe and New Alzheimer's Tracer
A healthcare advocacy group's lawsuit over AMA billing codes, an HHS request for a DOJ probe into gender-affirming care ...
Trump's New Medicaid Waiver Test Threatens Arkansas Coverage and Hospital Funding
CMS is refusing to renew Arkansas's 13-year Medicaid waiver under new budget-neutrality rules, a shift that may reshape ...
France's Top Court Approves Assisted Dying for Adults With Incurable Illness
The Constitutional Council upheld the July law in full, but ordered clarifications on conscience clauses and private hea...
Cancer Surgery Wait Times Rose Across Six Tumor Types From 2012 to 2023, Study Finds
A 2.7-million-patient National Cancer Database study found median time from diagnosis to first cancer treatment rose for...
Social Security Adds 14 Conditions to Fast-Track Disability List
The Social Security Administration has expanded its Compassionate Allowances program by adding 14 rare and severe medica...
HHS Ends Federal Medicaid and CHIP Funding for Transgender Care for Minors
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has finalized a rule ending federal Medicaid and CHIP funding for puber...
France orders nursing homes to publish three key staffing indicators for family scrutiny
A decree now requires France’s 7,500 elderly care homes to publicly disclose their staff-to-resident ratio, absenteeism ...
Trump Executive Order Splits Childhood Vaccines, Invokes Disproven Autism Link
President signs an order slashing universally recommended kids' shots, demanding separate MMR doses, and floating the de...
Trump Administration Medicaid Rules Will Deepen Coverage Losses, Think Tank Warns
New CMS policies on work requirements, payment caps, and provider taxes go far beyond last year’s reconciliation law, ri...
Hinson Introduces Bill to Force Health Insurers to Report Denial Rates, Wait Times
GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson's Health Insurance Transparency for Patients Act calls for public data on coverage denials, appea...
Court Fast-Tracks Challenge to Medicaid Work Rule’s Frailty Exemption
A Massachusetts federal judge has expedited a lawsuit by 25 states over a Medicaid work requirement’s medical frailty cl...
France to Double Annual Medical Deductible Caps, Raising Patient Costs to €200 per Year
The French government will double the annual caps on medical deductibles and fixed participation fees from 50 to 100 eur...
Germany’s ePA Health Record Struggles to Gain Traction as Insurers Push for Cost Reforms
One year after the electronic patient record (ePA) went live, usage remains low and healthcare stakeholders demand urgen...
Germany's Cabinet Reshuffle: Merz Appoints First Female Chancellery Chief and New Health Minister
Chancellor Merz moves Health Minister Nina Warken to head the Chancellery, gives Carsten Linnemann the health portfolio ...
Colombia's Congress Moves to Form Health Oversight Body Amid Persistent System Crisis
A proposal in Colombia's House of Representatives would create a special legislative commission to monitor the troubled ...
The GLP-1 Paradox: MassHealth Cuts Coverage as Obesity Drugs Strain Budgets
MassHealth will stop covering GLP-1 obesity medications, saving $15M a year but affecting 22,000 residents – a microcosm...