5 Key Facts about Medicaid’s Share of National Health Spending
Medicaid, as the primary program providing comprehensive coverage of health care and long-term services and supports to about 80 million low-income people...
House Republicans propose 6% budget cut to HHS for FY2026
The House Appropriations Committee is proposing a 6% cut to the budget for the Department of Health and Human Services...
Income and Assets of Medicare Beneficiaries in 2024
Close to 70 million people ages 65 and older and younger people with long-term disabilities receive their health insurance coverage...
The Black Death That Changed History Forever
The Black Death, or Bubonic Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics recorded, sweeping across continents in the 14th...
HHS taps Jim O’Neill as acting CDC director
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has named an interim director to lead the Centers for Disease Control...
Medicare Advantage Enrollees Account for 25% of all Inpatient Hospital Days
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage has grown rapidly in recent years, with more than half of all eligible Medicare beneficiaries now...
UPMC flips operations from $313M loss to $349M gain in H1 2025
The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center (UPMC) continues to flip last year’s losses, reporting this week a $348.6 million operating...
Charting the Way Forward: New Efforts to Advance Electronic Health Information Sharing
In July 2025, the Trump administration announced a new effort (“Making Health Tech Great Again”) towards health data interchange (referred...
Medicare ACOs saved $2.4B in 2024, setting a new program record
Accountable care organizations saved Medicare $2.4 billion last year, according to new federal data. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
Better Prompting May Help Reduce AI Hallucinations, False Vaccine Claims Spread, and Industrial Solvent Promoted as Hidden Cancer Cure — The Monitor
VOLUME 29 August 28, 2025 Summary This volume highlights new research showing that certain prompting techniques can help reduce the...
