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May 12, 2025
"[The] executive order to lower drug prices is largely an exercise in applying leverage, rather than actual policymaking -- and it may not amount to much ... The timeline for the administration to actually secure lower drug prices is slippery.... The order is almost certain to be challenged in court, just like a similar most favored nation policy for Medicare was during Trump's first term."
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Mar. 19, 2025
"Optum Rx -- which includes the pharmacy benefit manager of health care conglomerate UnitedHealth Group -- is dropping annual reauthorization requirements for 80 drugs ... The change will eliminate up to one-quarter of total drug reauthorizations, the company said. The program begins on May 1, and the list of included drugs will expand over time."
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Dec. 25, 2024
"The Biden administration's proposed rule would have scrapped the 'moral' exemption and retained the 'religious' one. It also would have created an 'independent pathway' for people who have insurers with religious exemptions to access birth control through a 'willing contraceptive provider' at no cost, the HHS said when announcing the plan last year."
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Oct. 1, 2025
"TrumpRx is the administration's latest move to bring down U.S. drug prices, but it's unlikely to save much for the 92% of Americans with health insurance. The site, intended to launch next year, functions as a sidecar to recent White House agreements with drugmakers meant to cut U.S. costs."
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Jan. 12, 2025
"The Supreme Court on [January 10] agreed to review a challenge to the [ACA's] requirement that insurers cover certain recommended preventive services at no cost.... The case takes up whether the coverage requirement, based on the recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, is invalid because the panel lacked authority since its members weren't Senate-confirmed." [Braidwood Mgmt, Inc. v. Becerra, No. 23-10326 (5th Cir. Jun. 21, 2024; cert. pet. granted Jan. 10, 2025)]
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Nov. 27, 2024
"The Biden administration's move, which would take effect in 2026, would expand access to drugs like Novo Nordisk's Ozempic or Wegovy for 3.4 million Americans on Medicare ... Officials said they do not expect this would raise seniors' premiums.... It's unclear how the Trump administration will view Medicare coverage of GLP-1s.... The cost is expected to be a key sticking point, particularly as the administration promises to cut back federal spending[.]"
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Apr. 3, 2025
"The lawsuit, originally filed last year under the Biden administration, was considered a major challenge to the PBM industry after the agency accused the drug middlemen of inflating the price of insulin and driving up costs to diabetes patients. Driving the news: The FTC issued the stay in the case against CVS Caremark, OptumRx and Express Scripts in response to a motion 'citing the fact that there are currently no sitting Commissioners able to participate in this matter.' "
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Mar. 27, 2025
"Health care spending per capita in 2019 was highest in Nassau County, New York (about $13,300); Suffolk County, New York ($12,700) and Washington, D.C. ($12,500) ... Clark County, Idaho ($3,400); Loving County, Texas ($3,900) and Kennedy County, Texas ($4,000) had the lowest such spending."
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Mar. 12, 2025
"Some machine learning models trained exclusively on existing patient data didn't recognize about 66% of injuries that could lead to patient death in the hospital ... A separate study ... found that about 65% of U.S. hospitals use AI-assisted predictive models, most commonly to figure out inpatient health trajectories."
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Mar. 10, 2025
"The at-home testing distribution program launched in January 2022. Since then, it has been significantly expanded but also had been suspended a few times over the years. The program last returned on Sept. 26 and took orders through [March 9]. It was not immediately known if the program could return in the future."
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