CMS will not change the Biden administration’s plan to negotiate prices for 15 previously named prescription drugs, and the agency’s next potential leader says he will defend the program in court.
The Senate voted March 14 to approve a government funding bill that extends key healthcare provisions, delays Medicaid disproportionate share hospital cuts and provides additional support for rural hospitals.
Massachusetts health officials are investigating a case of healthcare-associated Legionnaires’ disease at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham, ABC affiliate WCVB reported March 14.
When NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 returned to Earth in October, Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola (Fla.), part of St. Louis-based Ascension health system, became the first civilian hospital to provide medical care to astronauts.
The FDA made recommendations to vaccine manufacturers for the virus strains to be used in the next batch of flu vaccines, according to a March 13 news release from the agency.