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CMS Publishes Grab Bag of Proposed Changes to the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program

FDA Law

Kirschenbaum — Last Friday, May 26, CMS published in the Federal Register an assortment of proposals to change the regulations governing the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program. This limitation is virtually unenforceable because prescriptions and Medicaid claims for drugs do not identify the patient’s diagnosis or condition.

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

THURSDAY, June 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A longtime vaccine critic hired by Health Secretary Robert F. is reviewing safety data in an effort to revisit debunked claims that vaccines may cause autism. Geier and his late father, geneticist Mark Geier, spent decades promoting the idea that vaccines are linked to autism.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. Why was I spending all this time figuring out the detailed differential diagnosis of these obscure diseases when we weren’t actually attending to what people really needed? HPV vaccine.