U.S. Reps. G.K. Butterfield, D-North Carolina, and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., introduced new legislation this week that would provide for permanent Medicare payments for telehealth services at federally qualified health centers and rural health clinics. The Helping Ensure Access to Local TeleHealth, or HEALTH Act, would require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to revise… Read More »
Everywhere we look, we find signs of out-of-control Big Pharma influence on medical policies and public health laws. This shouldn’t come as a surprise, considering drug ads account for the vast majority of most media outlets’ advertising revenues. As a result, the media are no longer providing us with fair and balanced reporting on the… Read More »
Getty; Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock Bill Murray will return as Dr. Peter Venkman in this year’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife. It’ll be Murray’s first time playing the character on screen since 1989, though he did make a cameo as a different character in the 2016 Ghostbusters movie. Afterlife is out on July 10, and stars Finn Wolfhard, McKenna Grace, Carrie… Read More »
The U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks over impeachment inquiry two days after the formal request during her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill on Thursday, September 26, 2019. Aurora Samperio | NurPhoto | Getty Images Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s sweeping drug-pricing bill would result in as many as 100 fewer drugs… Read More »
Dive Brief: Legislation limiting drug price increases in Medicare will face a full Senate debate in September after the Finance Committee approved it on a mixed vote Thursday. The bill could see some modification before then to incorporate additional proposals, potentially including a ban on rebates to payers. In addition, House Democrats are working on… Read More »