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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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Jan. 5, 2026
"Americans are turning to AI tools to navigate the notoriously complex and opaque U.S. health care system.... Users turn to ChatGPT to decode medical bills, spot overcharges, appeal insurance denials, and when access to doctors is limited, some even use it to self-diagnose or manage their care.... More than 5% of all ChatGPT messages globally are about health care. "
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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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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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Jan. 22, 2025
"The health agencies' website updates, advisories, and scientific reports provide the public with critical information on a variety of medical issues, including food recalls, infectious diseases and new drug approvals. ... The temporary pause is meant to allow the new administration's team to get settled but will not impact communications related to health emergencies[.]"
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