Some patients are delaying or avoiding care because they fear Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in medical settings, CBS News reported July 8.  In January, the federal government rescinded ...

Sanjay Doddamani, MD, MBA, a former senior advisor to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, and internist and ...

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. abruptly postponed a meeting of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force originally scheduled ...

AHA statement for the record to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing on “Securing the Future of Health Care: Enhancing Cybersecurity and Protecting Americans’ Privacy.” ...

A federal health agency already passed a rule that could make care more expensive for trans people, but the Big, Beautiful Bill seeks to enshrine it.

US Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr said this week that several of the nation’s largest health insurers have agreed to change how they handle prior authorization, a ...

Anesthesia providers are grappling with a variety of legislative and policy-related issues that hold implications for patient access, provider compensation and practice staffing. Here are four recent ...

In a recent roundtable, the Department of Health and Human Services and executives from top insurance providers pledged to address longstanding concerns around prior authorizations, aiming to reduce ...

HHS has secured a pledge from insurers to streamline the companies’ practice of requiring prior authorizations before ...

Health insurer Humana is scaling back the number of medical services subject to prior approval and speeding up decisions ...

In a recent joint statement, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, announced health ...

As my colleague Kiera Butler has written, Kennedy has claimed, without evidence, that they can cause addiction and school ...