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STAT readers respond to First Opinion essays on site-neutral payments, free medical school tuition, and more...

...By Patrick Skerrett April 27, 2024 “Former HHS secretaries: Congress... ...should adopt site-neutral payments for health care,” by Alex Azar... ...Fleming, chair of The US Oncology Network’s National Policy Board... ...I thank former HHS secretaries Alex Azar and Kathleen Sebelius for...

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Cattle testing for H5N1 bird flu will be more limited than USDA initially announced

...and director of Brown University’s Pandemic Center.... ...“More testing is better,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist... ...Medicine Teaching and Research Center at UC Davis, told STAT.... ...Anice Lowen, an influenza researcher at Emory University School of...

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Mental health crisis centers and EmPATH units: offering care that busy ERs can't

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Biden administration punts menthol cigarette rule indefinitely

...and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement.... ...By Sarah Owermohle April 26, 2024 WASHINGTON — The Biden administration... ...Yet in recent years, leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus have... ...Sarah Owermohle reports on the administration’s health care initiatives...

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Momentum builds for House bill cracking down on Chinese biotechs

...By John Wilkerson April 26, 2024 WASHINGTON — A House committee next... ...It’s up to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, which...

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Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings

...Previously, he worked at Eli Lilly, where he was senior vice president... ...This time around, we note that Recludix Pharma hired Ajay Nirula...

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Another hospital sues MultiPlan, alleging scheme to ‘suppress’ payments

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Pharmalittle: We're reading about Cigna biosimilar plans, a Vertex deal in South Africa, and more

...By Ed Silverman April 26, 2024 And so, another working week will... ...beginning in June, Reuters writes.... ...Boehringer Ingelheim, Teva Pharmaceutical, and Alvotech, which will... ...The World Health Organization says new evidence shows the extensive...

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Solving academic medical centers' existential crisis

...By Ravi Thadhani and Anne KlibanskiApril 26, 2024 Hospitals and health... ...care systems across the United States have long been expected to... ...Services, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease... ...and the White House have left the Department of Health and Human...

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True peer-to-peer conversations will improve prior authorization

...By Matthew WalkerApril 26, 2024 It’s another busy day in my spine... ...That shouldn’t be a surprise, given that the caller is rarely a surgeon... ...to spine surgeon, oncologist to oncologist, physical therapist to... ...for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which was finalized in mid-January...