Trump order signals shake-up in drug pricing innovation through Medicare and Medicaid
President Donald Trump’s Day One executive order rescinding Biden-era Medicare and Medicaid price innovation programs signals ...
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CMS Proposes Guidance on Use of Real World Data for Coverage with Evidence Development
Real world data (RWD), which is data from actual patient treatments, provides valuable information on safety and effectiveness of innovative ...
Trump Administration Halts Certain Public Health Agencies’ Activities
President Trump has imposed temporary freezes at the National Institutes of Health on meetings, travel, communications and ...
RFK Jr. grilled on Medicare: What is Medicare Part A, Medicare Part B and Medicaid? What are they?
Senators grilled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on if and how he would reform Medicaid and Medicare during his first confirmation ...
Does Medicare cover ketamine infusions for mental health conditions?
Because it is still awaiting approval, Medicare does not typically cover the use of ketamine infusion for treating mental ...
Insurer Denies Access To Drugs Granted Accelerated Approval By FDA
Going forward, we may see more instances in which insurers deny or (temporarily) severely restrict coverage of accelerated ...
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CMS's New TCET Pathway Expedites Medicare Coverage for FDA Breakthrough Devices
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") published a final notice outlining the processes and procedures for the Transitional ...
Does Medicare cover estradiol cream?
Medicare Part D prescription drug plans may cover estradiol cream. A person can check with their plan to confirm coverage.
What Does the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Do?
If he is confirmed as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would take over a sprawling bureaucracy with ...
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Americans might finally have to face what’s in their food
A grocery shopper at a Chicago store on Jan. 15. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) In the final days of the Biden administration, the Food and Drug Administration proposed a front-of-package food label ...