Health care makes some surprising appearances in President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure plan, even though more health proposals are expected in a second proposal later this month. The bill that would help rebuild roads, bridges and broadband capabilities also includes $400 billion to help pay for home and community-based care and boost the wages… Read more
Kaiser Health News, By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez MARCH 17, 2021 It’s been a long, dark winter of covid concerns, stoked by high post-holiday case counts and the American death tally exceeding 530,000 lives lost. But with three vaccines — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — now authorized for emergency use in the United States, there… Read more
Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News, February 16, 2021 For people who’ve been without health insurance during the pandemic, relief is in sight. In January, President Joe Biden signed an executive order to open up the federal health insurance marketplace for three months as of Monday so uninsured people can buy a plan and those who… Read more
Michelle Andrews, Kaiser Health News, February 18, 2021 Last December, Mirande Gross graduated from Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky, with a bachelor’s degree in communications. But Gross has changed her mind and is heading back to school in May for a one-year accelerated nursing degree program. The pandemic that has sickened more than 27 million… Read more
Carly Behm – Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic put a roadblock on many specialties, including otolaryngology this year. With the year wrapping up, three ENTs told Becker’s ASC Review about what they were most excited for in 2021. Note: Responses have been edited for clarity and length. Nicole Aaronson, MD, pediatric otolaryngologist at Alfred I. duPont Hospital… Read more
Michelle Andrews January 5, 2021 Ted Howard started taking Truvada a few years ago because he wanted to protect himself against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. But the daily pill was so pricey he was seriously thinking about giving it up. Under his insurance plan, the former flight attendant and customer service instructor owed… Read more
Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News January 5, 2021 Hospitals face the new year with new requirements to post price information they have long sought to obscure: the actual prices negotiated with insurers and the discounts they offer their cash-paying customers. The move is part of a larger push by the Trump administration to use price… Read more
Katie Adams – Wednesday, December 30th, 2020 Spokane Valley, Wash.-based Valley Real Life’s annual holiday fundraiser had raised about $210,000 as of the morning of Dec. 29, which the church told the Spokesman-Review is enough to forgive $21 million in medical debt for qualifying individuals in the Pacific Northwest. https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/church-raises-enough-to-wipe-out-21m-in-medical-debt.html?origin=BHRE&utm_source=BHRE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=2104I5452278A2W
Most Americans tell pollsters they’re worried about being able to afford an unexpected medical bill. Late Monday, Congress passed a bill to allay some of those fears. The measure is included in a nearly 5,600-page package providing coronavirus economic relief and government funding for the rest of the fiscal year. Specifically, the legislation addresses those… Read more
A New England Journal of Medicine study yesterday of cancer patients with COVID-19 demonstrated viral RNA shedding for up to 78 days and live virus for up to 61 days, suggesting extended infectiousness in patients whose immune system is suppressed. Live-virus shedding in patients who are not immunocompromised is well-documented, but little is known about… Read more
