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I’m Sorry, Your Patient No Longer Has Medicaid Coverage by Valerie Smith, MD, MPH December 29, 2023   In March, MedPage Today reported on the impending rollback of provisions that kept millions of Americans enrolled in Medicaid during the COVID public health emergency. As part of our review of the past year’s biggest events, Texas […]

Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker [KFF] Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker Dec 07, 2023   The data presented here provide a snapshot of each state at the start of and during the unwinding period. Figure 1 shows total Medicaid enrollment by month starting in January 2023 and, once disenrollments resume in a state, the cumulative

What to Watch in the 2024 ACA Open Enrollment by Cynthia Cox, Kaye Pestaina, Krutika Amin, and Jared Ortaliza Oct 30, 2023   With the start of the 2024 Affordable Care Act open enrollment, the Marketplaces have been operating for a full decade and are heading into their eleventh year. This year’s open enrollment season

Hospitals Say Some Medicare Advantage Plans Are Skirting CMS Rules by Cheryl Clark, Contributing Writer November 27, 2023   Some Medicare Advantage (MA) plans do not intend to abide by the 2024 CMS rule that prohibits them from denying coverage of services that traditional Medicare would cover. Instead, the private plans are using their own

STAT Morning Rounds: Six health news stories you need to start your day By Theresa Gaffney December 4, 2023   Understand how science, health policy, and medicine shape the world everyday. Sign up for our Morning Rounds newsletter here.   How sickle cell became the first CRISPR’d disease Nearly a decade ago, consultants delivered to

National Single Payer Denounces Targeting of Hospitals in Gaza By Judy Albert, Claire Cohen, Ed Grystar, Ana Malinow, Martha Schmidt and Kay Tillow, Counter Punch November 30, 2023   And U.S. Complicity In Genocide. As a national, grassroots, social justice organization that organizes locally in the struggle for national single payer health care in the

How Will Tomorrow’s Medical Students Be Different? by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA November 11, 2023   The future of medical students appears promising and challenging at the same time. While there will be abundant opportunities for medical students to explore various fields of medicine, they will be challenged by high stress levels, financial burden, and

Clinician of the Future 2023 Education Edition October 2023   Empowering the next generation of clinicians Healthcare professionals worldwide are experiencing increasing pressure in their daily work — a challenge that extends to the emerging generation of clinicians. Our report highlights the sentiments of students regarding advanced technology and AI in their education, shedding light

Will Tomorrow’s Medical Students Ever Practice Medicine? by Arthur Lazarus, MD, MBA November 26, 2023   In a recent essay , I marveled at the qualities that will set apart tomorrow’s physicians from previous generations. And while everything I wrote I believed to be true, I suppose I neglected a major concern, a big blind

Most Medical, Nursing Students Don’t Plan to Treat Patients, Survey Finds by Shannon Firth, Washington Correspondent November 2, 2023   A majority of medical and nursing students said they view their studies as a “stepping-stone” to a broader non-patient-facing healthcare career, according to a global survey from Elsevier Health.   Of a total of 2,212