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Actor’s Death Raises Alarm about Off-Label Use of Anesthetic
A federal court has indicted and charged five individuals for contributing to the death of actor Matthew Perry by providing him with the anesthetic ketamine. On October 28, 2023, Perry was found floating face-down in his hot tub. An autopsy later revealed his death had been caused by “acute effects of ketamine.” Perry, a star…
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Influenza Could Be the Next Public Emergency, HHS States
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra issued a notice stating the agency has the authority to declare a public emergency over influenza type A viruses and those influenza A viruses with “pandemic potential.” The notice, issued on July 24, states if a national emergency resulting from this broad class of viruses is…
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States Can Take Nine Steps to Improve Health Care
The Heartland Institute, which co-publishes Health Care News, published an updated version of its American Health Care Plan (AHCP) in September that identifies steps states can take now to improve health care costs, access, and quality instead of waiting for Washington, DC to act. The 2024 edition, “American Health Care Plan: State Solutions,” includes nine…
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Medicare Price Hike Becomes a Headache for Biden-Harris Administration
The pending announcement that seniors enrolled in the Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage plans will have to pay substantially higher monthly premiums has the White House scrambling to shield the cost ahead of November’s presidential election. The price hikes will be posted in late September and are expected to triple by 2025. To cushion…
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Biden’s Nursing Home Staffing Mandate Hit with Lawsuit
A Biden administration rule setting minimum staffing levels at nursing homes has been hit with a lawsuit. Biden’s regulation could require 80 percent of the 15,000 nursing homes certified for Medicare and Medicaid long-term care in the United States to hire more workers. The industry is fighting the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…
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Optometrists Go After Online Vision Tests
Online eye examinations are currently allowed in 37 states, but some of those states are moving toward limiting or banning them under pressure from optometric associations. For instance, under heavy pressure from the Kentucky Optometric Association (KOA), the state attorney general (AG) alleged that online, eyeglass retailer Warby Parker violated the state’s KOA-backed Consumer Protection…
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Texas Squares Off with CMS over Medicaid Funding
Texas and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are locking horns over what Lone Star State officials say is CMS’s double standard when it comes to states that have not participated in Medicaid expansion. Along with Florida and Missouri, Texas was targeted by CMS last year for audits and other enforcement actions as…
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The Latest Surprise Charge on Medical Bills—Facility Fees – Commentary
“Surprise, surprise, surprise!”—as Gomer Pyle was fond of saying. There’s yet another surprise medical bill scam that most patients probably do not know about. It is hospital-affiliated urgent care centers that are billed as hospital outpatient departments. I often tell the story of the time my wife almost got a CT scan at a hospital…
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FDA Hid COVID Shot Side Effects—Congressional Report
A congressional investigation has found evidence the Biden administration pressured drug regulators to cut corners in authorizing COVID-19 shots and boosters. An interim staff report by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust concluded the Biden administration “pressured the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to go beyond its…
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How to Spend Billions of Dollars and Get Nothing in Return – Interview
Priceless – Curing the Healthcare Crisis (Updated Second Edition), by John C. Goodman, Independent Institute, 392 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1-59-813395-0, $28.95, amazon.com (Hardcover) John C. Goodman, co-publisher of Health Care News, known as the “father of health savings accounts,” is releasing a second edition of his 2012 groundbreaking book, Priceless – Curing the Healthcare Crisis.…
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