UnitedHealthcare will drop prior authorization requirements for roughly 1,700 medical procedure codes next month, as part of its pledge earlier this year to cut the amount of care requiring advance ...

CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz admitted President Donald Trump was wrong to describe the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine as “lethal” in a recent interview, while cases of measles in the United States ...

Medical associations are reiterating their recommendations that all adults and children over a certain age receive vaccinations against COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), which ...

As key Senate Democrats seek input on ways to design a public insurance option to cut health care costs, some prominent health care experts suggest a better way to improve federal health care ...

Centers for Medicaid and CHIP Services Director Daniel Brillman said home- and community-based services waitlists could be reduced or eliminated if Medicaid fraud is addressed in California and ...

Amid Eli Lilly’s expanding legal fight with compounders and online peptide sellers marketing its experimental weight-loss drug retatrutide, FDA has sent another tranche of warning letters to five ...

The FDA is reiterating its claims that fluoropolymers, a subset of PFAS, in medical devices are safe, echoing industry arguments in a website update that the widely used chemicals are safer than other ...

While stakeholders are telling CMS to go back to the drawing board on its proposed state-directed payments rule, their concerns go way beyond the proposed expansion of the SDP cap to flag structural ...

States suing over the Medicaid work requirements interim final rule are narrowing their challenges to focus on alleged violations of the Administrative Procedure Act like the medically frail exemption ...

AMA has named Jennifer Goldsack, founder of the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), as senior vice president and inaugural leader of its Center for Digital Health and AI.

FDA is warning consumers taking compounded versions of GLP-1 medications that all vials should be discarded after 28 days, regardless of whether all doses have been used, saying holding onto vials for ...

Just days after Solicitor General D. John Sauer conceded the Department of Justice could no longer defend FDA’s in-house civil penalties against tobacco retailers simply by invoking public health or ...