Between 2016 and 2019, the United States experienced a rapid proliferation of limits restricting the duration or number of doses in opioid prescriptions for acute pain.1 As of October 2019, such limits have been enacted by 34 states; large payers, such as Medicare, several state Medicaid programs, Aetna, and UnitedHealth; pharmacy chains, such as Sam’s Club/Walmart; and major pharmacy benefit managers, such as CVS CareMark, ExpressScripts, and OptumRx, which collectively manage drug benefits for 180 million Americans.
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Dr. Vivek Murthy tells NPR: "The reality is that loneliness is a natural signal that our body gives us, similar to hunger, thirst. And that's how important human connection is."
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Administrators across the country are increasingly turning to anti-labor consultants to fend off nurses’ unions.
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As losses mount, hospital chains like Advocate Aurora Health, Providence and Loyola Medicine have had to trim costs—including at the top.
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This Viewpoint describes how the clinical decision support tools that are part of electronic health records and are used by physicians may be corrupted by commercial influence.
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The coronavirus outbreak is costing Bay Area hospital systems millions and dealing a huge financial blow, even as federal stimulus money flows in and lucrative surgeries slowly return.
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The coronavirus has reached every corner of America. But data show African Americans are harder hit. Black Atlantans have several theories why.
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Florida Cancer Specialists said that coronavirus relief dollars from taxpayers will not be used to pay back their fines.
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“It’s just gone haywire, I mean haywire,” thought Eddie Keith, a 65-year-old funeral home attendant standing in the back who was familiar with all the faces on the funeral programs piling up. “People dying left and right.”
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A study found that preventive cancer screenings sharply declined due to Covid-19. What effect will this dramatic decline in screening have on patient health?
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Misinformation about the pandemic is like COVID-19 itself: highly contagious, destructive, and with no known treatment or vaccine.
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Faced with lost revenue from canceled elective procedures, hospitals laid off 1.4 million health care workers in April, including nearly 135,000 from hospitals.
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Two studies show promise, but physicians have more questions than answers about the data.
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The pharmaceutical industry often justifies high drug prices by claiming that they create more innovation, but two recent studies find that drug costs and clinical benefit are often not related.
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Structural racism created the unequal conditions driving the black-white health gap. Disparities in COVID-19 infection and death rates show just how dire that gap is.
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Some states are ramping up their contact tracing capacity-- but are they hiring enough tracers to open up safely?
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Tsion Firew writes that healthcare professionals across the globe are faced with extraordinary levels of pressure not so different from a warzone.
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Despite the direct and personal care that nurses provide, they are not valued as they should be. That's a shame, and maybe even a deadly shame.
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For millions of disabled people and their families, the coronavirus crisis has piled on new difficulties and ramped up those that already existed. Many are immunocompromised and therefore more vulnerable to infection, but terrified of new coronavirus-era hospital guidelines they fear could put them at risk.
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