Thursday, May 15, 2025

RFK Jr at Senate, May 14, 2025: Chat GPT Assesses the Day

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The Hill posts a video of the full 2.5 hour RFK JR testimony at Senate on May 14, 2025. https://thehill.com/video-clips/5299375-watch-live-r...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Center for Medicare Innovation: Abe Sutton Highlights New Goals under Trump Administration

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The Center for Medicare Innovation launches "New Strategy to Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA).  There was a webinar on May 13, 2...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Diagnostics & Differences of Opinion: New Case Study from Alzheimer's Disease

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Update:  See similar coverage at 360Dx . ## For decades, there have been differences of opinion about when any particular diagnostic test is...

Trump Administration and Drug Prices: What Happened, May 12, 2025?

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Over the weekend of May 10, 2025, President Trump posted that American drug makers would soon provide drugs at "most favored nation...

An Update on: Medicaid Pricing versus Medicare Pricing

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 A quick pointer to a topic of ongoing interest - the gap between Medicaid prices and Medicare prices.   See article by Skopec at Health Aff...

Remote Monitoring: Peterson Center, OIG See Medicare Vulnerabilities

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It was a big deal a few years ago when CPT created, and CMS accepted, remote monitoring codes of several types.   Part of the issue was that...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

CMS Issues Instructions for PrEP Therapy for Medicare Beneficiaries

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Despite the brouhaha over the USPSTF and preventive services, especially HIV-related services, under the Affordable Care Act, CMS has gone a...

Surgeon General Proposed: "L.A. Holistic Doctor and Wellness Influencer"

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The Trump administration has proposed a second candidate (replacement candidate) for the post of Surgeon General .   This is Casey Means MD,...

Stevenson et al: Navigating PGx Testing in Practice

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See a new open-access paper from the Pharmacogenomics Global Research Network (PGRN), Stevenson et al. in Clin Pharmacol Therapeutics. See a...

Thermo Fisher Ebook on Clinically Relevant Genomic Testing (24pp)

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 Thermo Fisher has issued a number of white papers on genomics recently.   Here's one titled, "Expert Interviews - Revolutionize Pa...
Tuesday, May 6, 2025

FDA Seats Dr Vinay Prasad as Head of Biologics, Vaccines

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  HHS has chosen Dr Vinay Prasad, a UCSF-based oncologist, as head of CBER - the biologics and vaccines division.  The former head was Dr. P...
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Natera Data, DEFINE HT Trial: Donor DNA Testing Can Outperform Cardiac Biopsy

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For several years, both CareDx and Natera have offered transplant patients the chance to detect organ rejection earlier, by quantifying the ...

MolDx Recruiting Add'l Medical Director

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 See a post by Dr. Gabriel Bien-Willner of MolDx, on Linked-In.  MolDx recruits an additional medical director. It has an open-listing date ...
Thursday, May 1, 2025

MolDx Medical Director Dr. Charnot-Katsikas: Hear the Podcast

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Dr. Angella Charnot-Katsikas has been a medical director with Palmtto/MolDx since December 2020. Dr. Charnot-Katsikas is featured on the fi...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Stat Plus Runs Detailed Profile of Chris Klomp, New Head, Center for Medicare

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  Kudos to Mario Aguilar, journalist at STAT PLUS, for his very detailed profile of Chris Klomp, the new head of the Center for Medicare. #...