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President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are expected to discuss the new drug prices Thursday at an event in Maryland.

CMS announces Medicare prices for first negotiated drugs

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted August 15, 2024 at 10:46am
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, right, and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt speak to the cameras outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on April 26, 2022. Paxton is challenging President Joe Biden's nursing home staffing rule.

Texas sues Biden over nursing home staffing mandate

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted August 14, 2024 at 4:16pm
Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., left, has questioned whether the TRICARE's pharmacy benefit manager has effectively limited access to medication among U.S. service members, families, and veterans.

TRICARE becomes part of fight over pharmacy benefit managers

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted August 13, 2024 at 10:31am
Vice President Kamala Harris addresses an event with descendants of iconic civil rights leaders to celebrate Black History Month at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on February 13.

Harris’ Senate portfolio included maternal health, telehealth

By Jessie Hellmann and Ariel Cohen
Posted July 25, 2024 at 7:00am
Jeremy Wong smokes an e-cigarette at The Vaping Buddha in San Francisco.

Fight over flavored vapes lands at Supreme Court

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted July 2, 2024 at 2:19pm
People from across the United States who lost loved ones because of the opioid epidemic rallied at the Justice Department in Washington on Dec. 3, 2021.

Supreme Court blocks Purdue Pharma bankruptcy plan

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 27, 2024 at 1:23pm
Madison Tolchin visits Paula Glass, an advanced registered nurse practitioner, for a health checkup in Wellington, Fla. in 2017.

Appeals court rules preventive care task force unconstitutional

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 21, 2024 at 3:56pm
A pandemic-era program that pays hospitals to provide acute inpatient care in patients’ homes will expire at the end of this year unless Congress acts.

‘Hospital at home’ gains bipartisan support but questions remain

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 21, 2024 at 6:00am
Empty infant beds sit gathered in a corner in a quiet maternity ward at rural Madera Community Hospital, which closed in January 2023, creating a lack of health care services for the blue-collar Central Valley agricultural community in Madera, Calif.

Wyden wants more Medicaid funding to keep obstetric units open

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 17, 2024 at 4:05pm
Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., speaks during a news conference in March. He has reintroduced a bill aimed at streamlining the prior authorization process for Medicare Advantage.

Bipartisan prior authorization legislation introduced

By Jessie Hellmann
Posted June 12, 2024 at 5:42pm