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The drug company will effectively give up on marketing Aduhelm, which comes with unproven benefit and serious safety risks.

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Investigators urged increased oversight of the program, saying that insurers deny tens of thousands of authorization requests annually.

By Christopher Miller

Marta E. Wosińska, Ph.D., is a visiting fellow at the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative on Health Policy. She is a healthcare economist with a particular expertise in prescription drugs and experience spanning academia and federal government. Dr. Wosińska’s government experience includes serving as director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission, chief healthcare economist in the Office of Inspector General (OIG) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and director of economics staff at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation & Research.  Dr. Wosińska also served as economic advisor to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, providing drug market analysis and expert guidance for the Committee’s bipartisan investigative and legislative work on drug pricing.  Among academic institutions, she was consulting professor and deputy director for policy at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University and an assistant professor of marketing at the Harvard Business School.

      

The schemes included selling fake vaccination cards and test results, as well as enticing patients to accept unneeded treatments, tests and telehealth visits.

He transformed a small company into a corporation focused on providing health insurance under government programs. It now insures 25 million people.

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The emergency declaration, which enables free testing and eases Medicaid eligibility, among other provisions, will now extend at least until mid-July.

Officials cited data showing the new Alzheimer’s drug has serious safety risks and may not help patients.

The Alzheimer’s Association has pushed relentlessly to get broad access to Aduhelm, despite safety risks and uncertain evidence that it helps patients.

Health care researchers argue that hospice facilities could better serve some terminal patients, and ease the burden on exhausted loved ones.

Social Security benefits and your savings can be taxed. But in general, older Americans’ tax bills go down.

The Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, funded by Medicare and Medicaid, has quietly succeeded in enabling some older Americans to age in place.

Three recent developments — incremental and undramatic but encouraging — are likely to improve the lives and health of seniors.

Many older Americans like to ease into being an ex-worker — but you need to think carefully about just how to get there.

Blockbuster enrollments are good news — but will poltiics kill progress?

The announcement came after lawmakers and advocates argued that Medicare recipients had been passed over in the push to require insurers to cover the tests.