2025 health care agenda: Pharmacy benefit manager regulation

Control of Congress, 30 governorships in Medicaid work-requirement states and eight statewide health care measures were on Tuesday's ballot. Here is what each one would change for physicians and their patients.

The AMA and eight other physician groups say a CMS rule narrows a protection Congress wrote for medically frail patients

Only 22 of the articles in a Georgetown scoping review defined health equity, a gap the lead author said could steer resources toward the most advantaged groups.

Primary Care Collaborative leads first major study of uptake of new Advanced Primary Care Management codes.

After private equity firms bought for-profit hospices, Medicare paid $993 more per hospice encounter and stays ran 6.3 days longer, with no increase in visits.

New patients in big metros wait about a month to see a physician, and shortage areas, coverage losses and a proposed Medicare pay cut are adding pressure ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms.

Flu hospitalizations are arriving early this fall, and Johns Hopkins experts say a physician's recommendation remains patients' best path to vaccination, while a new mRNA flu vaccine faces a coverage question.

American Osteopathic Association leaders discuss the profession’s record growth, its training pipeline and the pressures facing practicing physicians.