Fact checked by Nick Blackmer This week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced two days of questioning about his stance on controversial health topics and his vision for operating the U.S. Department of Health ...

Senators grilled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on if and how he would reform Medicaid and Medicare during his first confirmation ...

Federal health agencies, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, have halted their communication efforts in ...

The exact scope and duration is clear, and one question is what will happen to release of CDC data that employers and insurers use in pricing.

California has been hit hardest, accounting for 38 cases, according to CDC data. The latest case involved a San Francisco child who developed fever and conjunctivitis but was not hospitalized and has ...

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials visited San Diego’s South Bay and Nestor communities the weekend of Oct. 17, 2024 to survey the public on possible effects of the ...

The Biden administration has announced the next 15 drugs chosen for Medicare negotiation, marking one of its final acts before President-elect Trump’s inauguration. The Centers for Medicare and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Hospitals loathe so-called site-neutral policy, the idea that Medicare should pay hospitals’ outpatient clinics the same, lower amounts as independent physicians’ offices for ...

Publication of the list kicks off a monthslong process that will feature a series of meetings between drugmakers and the CMS, which oversees the Medicare insurance program. The negotiations ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are hospitalized with the flu for H5N1 bird flu. Health care workers in ...

The CDC recommends that this subtyping occur as soon as possible following admission — ideally within 24 hours — to determine whether the virus is a seasonal influenza A subtype (i.e. A[H1] and A[H3]) ...

“What we need is to shift to a system that tells us what’s happening in the moment,” Nirav Shah, principal deputy director at CDC, told reporters Thursday morning. Both bird flu and most ...