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The American philosopher, Sam Harris, observed that, as individuals and as a species, humans can attribute all we have to our intelligence, or at least we must rely on our intelligence to safeguard th ...

Medicare Physician Payment Reform Requires More Than Bureaucratic Tweaks Doctors providing care for Medicare patients face yet another bureaucratic payment cut in 2025. Thankfully, Congress is conside ...

In a seismic political shift, Republicans have laid claim to an issue that Democrats left in the gutter--the declining health of Americans. True, it took a Democrat with a famous name to ask why ...

I and many other health care policy experts are concerned about the lack of congressional urgency to safeguard vital patient access to virtual care, especially on the heels of National Epilepsy Awaren ...

The Biden administration's lame duck status does not appear to have deterred it from further inflating federal spending. Although federal law specifically prohibits Medicare from covering ...

President-elect Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services ranks among his most controversial. The outcry against the Kennedy nomination beg ...

Another "lame duck" political season is upon us, in which the 118th Congress plays out its last five weeks. This is the point in the legislative cycle where some try to shoehorn their pet ...

Congress created the 340B drug discount program in 1992 to help hospitals and healthcare providers purchase medicines at a discount to ensure access for vulnerable populations. Thirty-two years later,

You've probably seen a commercial recently on TV. A doctor is writing a prescription for a patient when a man in a suit appears and introduces himself as a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM). The sm ...

In all of the post-mortems about the 2024 election, much will be written about the major issues that flood the airwaves and are featured in many a clickbait article. Less talked about, but perhaps als ...