43 articles in the Health category.
By Tommy Flynn
Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday that Florida’s Medicaid integrity push has cut projected spending on Applied Behavior Analysis services by nearly $1 billion for the coming fiscal year. The Agency for Health Care Administration had projected ABA spending, the therapy billed for...
By Tommy Flynn
The White House said President Donald Trump has ordered one-time payments of $90 to more than 20 million people on Medicare to offset Part B premiums. The fact sheet, dated Oct. 2, says the money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund. Congress created the fund in 2008 and...
By Tommy Flynn
Federal Medicaid rules that took effect Thursday are ending coverage for hundreds of thousands of lawfully present immigrants who do not hold green cards, the first large eligibility cut from President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act to reach enrollees. The law, signed July...
By Tommy Flynn
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued Pfizer and Chief Executive Albert Bourla on Thursday, accusing the company of misleading the public about the safety and effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine. The case was filed in state court under Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair...
By Tommy Flynn
A trauma surgeon who worked at the Washington hospital that treated the first confirmed COVID-19 patient in the United States told a Senate roundtable Monday that internal quality reviews found billing fraud, that federal remdesivir protocols increased harm, and that the...
By Tommy Flynn
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said Tuesday it canceled 315,000 Affordable Care Act health plans last month covering about 760,000 people, citing unverified citizenship or immigration documents and suspected improper enrollments. The figures were disclosed in...
By Tommy Flynn
Federal prosecutors in South Florida have convicted every defendant charged so far in Operation Nightingale, a years-long case against for-profit nursing schools that sold diplomas and transcripts to people who did not complete required classes or clinical training. Buyers then...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump said Friday in the Oval Office that every state Medicaid program — plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico — will participate in the GENEROUS model, which extends manufacturer most-favored-nation rebates to coverage for roughly 70 million people. The...
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump announced Monday that nine additional mid-size drugmakers have joined the administration’s Most Favored Nation pricing framework, bringing the total to 26 companies that the White House says cover 89 percent of the branded U.S. market. Speaking in the Oval Office...
By Tommy Flynn
Senate Homeland Security Chairman Rand Paul released additional records over the weekend showing Dr. Anthony Fauci, on at least five occasions spanning 2009 to 2020, telling federal colleagues to delete emails after reading them. The same package describes Fauci pointing CIA and...
By Tommy Flynn
David M. Morens, a former senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a federal conspiracy charge stemming from efforts to hide communications about coronavirus research grants during the COVID-19 pandemic by using...
By Tommy Flynn
Senator Ron Johnson on Sunday highlighted newly released communications from former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci’s government-issued phone and related correspondence, saying the materials raise further questions about what federal...