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White House: Trump will send one-time $90 payments to 20M+ Medicare Part B enrollees, but CMS, HHS and SSA have not published how payments will be carried out.
#medicare, #ssa, #healthcare, #whitehouse
New federal rule ends Medicaid/CHIP matching funds for many lawfully present immigrants starting Oct. 1, 2026, forcing states to cut coverage or pay locally.
#medicaid, #immigration, #healthcare, #cms
Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor will become PhRMA’s president and CEO on Nov. 9, succeeding Stephen Ubl and stepping into the drug industry’s top advocacy role.
#pharma, #healthcare, #ericcantor, #tradeassociation
1199SEIU filed an NLRB petition to represent about 190,000 New York CDPAP personal assistants paid through PPL, a potential record-size private-sector vote.
#labor, #unions, #healthcare, #newyork
CBO and JCT estimate federal health-insurance subsidies will total $33.6 trillion from 2026–2036, rising from 7.4% to 8.4% of GDP.
#healthcare, #medicare, #medicaid, #budget
A GAO report finds DOE’s isotope program isn’t systematically matching production to demand, risking medical, security and industrial supplies.
#doe, #isotopes, #healthcare, #gao
GAO finds rising unauthorized ACA enrollments and plan switches, urging CMS to strengthen consent checks, access limits and consumer notices.
#healthcare, #aca, #cms, #gao
NHS England is fast-tracking AI triage in the NHS App for all users by April 2028 and expanding ambient voice notetaking for clinicians to cut waits and admin.
#nhs, #ai, #healthcare
About 450,000 New Yorkers with incomes 200–250% of poverty will lose $0-premium Essential Plan coverage on July 1 and must shift to marketplace plans.
#healthcare, #newyork, #essentialplan, #insurance
Six months after enhanced ACA subsidies ended, enrollment and payment data show millions lost coverage and many who kept plans face much higher costs.
#healthcare, #aca, #insurance, #enrollment
A joint UN/EU/World Bank assessment estimates $10.03B needed over five years to rebuild Gaza’s health system and reports 14% of health workers lost.
#gaza, #healthcare, #un, #worldbank
iRhythm reported that data was exfiltrated from third‑party business applications; its devices and clinical systems were not affected, and the investigation is ongoing.
$IRTC, #irhythm, #cybersecurity, #data-breach, #healthcare
UK to invest almost £30m to expand AI-assisted diagnostics in the NHS, including £20m to roll out AI chest X-ray tools to all English trusts by 2029.
#nhs, #ai, #healthcare, #lungcancer
FTC will let Ascension buy AmSurg only if it sells seven ambulatory surgery centers across five U.S. metro areas to preserve local competition.
#antitrust, #healthcare, #ascension, #amsurg, #ftc
DOJ says Texas Children’s will stop puberty blockers and hormones for minors, pay $10M over billing claims and fund a detransition clinic in the first settlement of its probe.
#transgender, #healthcare, #doj, #texas
