Communities ask, where is the equity in vaccines?
Areas that have been hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic are falling short when it comes to vaccine access. Community leaders are pushing to bring vaccination sites to their neighborhoods.
Areas that have been hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic are falling short when it comes to vaccine access. Community leaders are pushing to bring vaccination sites to their neighborhoods.
Citing a lack of funding, Oklahoma scrapped its plans for Medicaid expansion. The state was one of the first to apply to expand Medicaid using block grants, which would give it a fixed amount of funding for the program.
In other news, the three largest pharmaceutical distributors in the country - AmerisourceBergen, McKesson and Cardinal Health - were reportedly in talks to settle opioid litigation for $18 billion.
While higher than the amounts that Purdue and Teva had to pay, an analyst wrote that the judgment is lower than what the state attorney general had sought. J&J said it plans to appeal the decision.
Jurors ordered the payment after ruling that Aetna failed to deal in good faith in determining whether or not to cover proton beam therapy for Orrana Cunningham, a Oklahoma woman suffering from nasopharyngeal cance
ROI has been—and continues to be—a central theme during the multiphase telemedicine rollout at INTEGRIS Health in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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Plus, Health Affairs examines the potential of Medicare ACOs, BCBS of New Mexico faces questions of "deceptive business practices" and PhRMA fights back against suspicion of price gouging.
An estimated 6.8 million children have asthma, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control. Owlpal sees the room in the market for a digital health app for parents that automonitors children with asthma.
The FDA could spend up to $182,000 over the next four years on its social media plans. The money goes to IB5k, which helped President Obama with his first campaign for the White House, as well as doing some work for leading Republicans, according to Politico. Overall, according to the RFQ, the job involves: By […]
A concussion can manifest itself a variety of ways, from a headache to impaired memory to slurred speech. That’s why athletic trainers, nurses and physicians have a growing toolkit of assessment techniques for evaluating athletes who undergo a blow or jolt to the head. One piece that’s missing from that toolkit, according to Oklahoma entrepreneur […]
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
The strongest advocate for expanding Medicaid—and the likely source of funding for the massive advertising campaign—is the hospital lobby. We hear that hospitals are going broke. They can’t make ends meet. The uninsured are breaking the hospitals’ backs from emergency room over-utilization. Hospitals won’t survive unless Medicaid is expanded. (This is the most interesting claim, […]
With a federal deadline looming Friday, 10 states remain undecided about whether to build state-based online insurance markets designed to help millions of people buy health coverage starting next October. Still wrestling with the decision are Idaho...