Day: March 28, 2024
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Chair of U.S. Senate health committee demands maker of weight-loss drugs, most popular in Kentucky, cut their prices by two-thirds
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who chairs the U.S. Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee says the maker of two popular diabetes and weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy should...
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Government Accountability Office says Medicare and Medicaid each overpaid health-care providers by about $50 billion in 2023
Improper payments, mainly through overpayments, in Medicare and Medicaid are expected to total about $50 billion each for 2023, the federal Government Accountability Office says in its annual report on the...
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Four-part series from PBS and KET tells the story of public health
Kentucky Health News “Public health saved your life today and you don’t even know it.” That’s the catchphrase of a PBS series that began on KET Tuesday night, about the...