Medical Economics Staff

Medical Economics Pulse is a quick-hitting news podcast that keeps busy physicians in the know. Here are your headlines for February 19, 2025.

What does DOGE, a sort-of government agency named after a memecoin and led by billionaire Elon Musk, have to do with the U.S. federal health care apparatus? Apparently, a great deal.

Multiple agencies are seeing hundreds or even thousands of employees fired

Physicians have complained that Medicare reimbursement rates have not kept pace with inflation, and now in 2025, are dealing with a 2.83% reimbursement cut. There's little chance of relief in sight. How did we get here?

Medical Economics Pulse is a quick-hitting news podcast that keeps busy physicians in the know. Here's your headlines for February 14, 2025.

What will the plans of RFK Jr., Trump’s new secretary of health and human services, mean to physicians and patients?

Industry analyst outlines how Medicare made a noteworthy inclusion in its 2025 rule.

Medical Economics Pulse is a quick-hitting news podcast that keeps busy physicians in the know. Here's your headlines for February 12, 2025.

It remains unclear how Trump's executive order on workforce reductions will impact federal health agencies.

Medical Economics Pulse is a quick-hitting news podcast that keeps busy physicians in the know. Here's your headlines for February 7, 2025.

Medical Economics Pulse is a quick-hitting news podcast that keeps busy physicians in the know. Here's your headlines for February 6, 2025.

Meeting includes statements for and against Kennedy, known for vaccine skepticism.

Health care organizations react to president’s declaration on imported medicines and medical equipment.

Journavx, by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, is a well-tolerated medicine without evidence of addictive potential indicated for use across all types of moderate-to-severe acute pain.

10 researchers selected based on interests and knowledge of medical research.

Four physicians, executive join trade association dedicated to transformation of health care.

The newly approved TriVerity combines a single-use test cartridge and the Myrna instrument to deliver results at the point of care, informing decisions related to antimicrobial therapy, reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and guide patient disposition.

New prices would take effect in 2027.

Evidence is uncertain about effectiveness of screening in men.

Medical Economics March 2024 highlighted the growing role of artificial intelligence technology in health care.

Our 95th annual Physician Report covers the latest data on practicing physicians, including salaries, practice financial health, productivity, malpractice rates, the state of the profession and more. Free registration required to view.

PCORI announces list of grants to support studies on patient-centered health care.

O’Neill tapped to serve as deputy secretary, Bhattacharya to lead National Institutes of Health.

Dave Weldon, MD, Marty Makary, MD, MPH, FACS, and Janette Nesheiwat, MD, are the President-elect’s picks for CDC director, FDA commissioner and surgeon general.

Famed television host will join RFK Jr. ‘to take on the illness industrial complex,’ president-elect says in news reports.

Trump taps vaccine skeptic Kennedy at HHS to 'make America healthy again.'

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Jen Brull, MD, FAAFP, takes lead of American Academy of Family Physicians, largest medical society dedicated exclusively to primary care.

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A look at which sources of secondary income were most popular among physicians.