Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed - Morning Briefing (++)

Longer Looks: Interesting Reads You Might Have Missed https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/longer-looks-interesting-reads-you-might-have-missed-276/ Viewpoints: Onlookers Have Made Up Their Minds About Cornell Sex Assault Case; 340B Policy Must Adapt For Drugs With Multiple Uses https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/viewpoints-onlookers-have-made-up-their-minds-about-cornell-sex-assault-case-340b-policy-must-adapt-for-drugs-with-multiple-uses/

Doctors Without Borders Worker Evacuated To Netherlands After Contracting Ebola - Morning Briefing

Doctors Without Borders Worker Evacuated To Netherlands After Contracting Ebola The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has reported that about 254 health workers have been infected and 50 have died since the outbreak began in May. Separately, as flu season picks up, San Francisco reports its first death. California health data show 26 people have died from flu so far this season. https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/public-health-100226/

Medicare Advantage Plans Will Cost More And Cover Less In 2027 - Morning Briefing

Medicare Advantage Plans Will Cost More And Cover Less In 2027 According to federal data released this week, the 2027 plans will eliminate broad networks of doctors and hospitals, cut benefits, and raise out-of-pocket costs for seniors. Insurers' press releases, however, are presenting their plans as robust, Healthcare Dive noted. https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/health-industry-100226/

Arizona Prison Healthcare Takeover Will Continue After Supreme Court Blocks State Appeal - Morning Briefing

Arizona Prison Healthcare Takeover Will Continue After Supreme Court Blocks State Appeal While asking the courts to delay the takeover, Arizona's attorneys claimed that the corrections department was not given enough time to make progress and argued that the official appointed to run healthcare operations wouldn’t be politically accountable, AP reported. On Thursday, Justice Elena Kagan denied the state’s request. Arizona's prison healthcare system has received complaints for the past 14 years and was found to have exposed prisoners to harm and preventable deaths. https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/from-the-states-100226/

21 Drugs Are Cleared For Back-End Payments In Revised Pilot Of 340B Program (+++) Morning Briefing

21 Drugs Are Cleared For Back-End Payments In Revised Pilot Of 340B Program Come Jan. 1, 10 pharmaceutical companies will pay rebates to providers only after it's been established that qualifying drugs were dispensed to eligible patients. Drugmakers have expressed concern that there is waste and fraud in the program, an allegation that hospitals say is overblown. https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/administration-news-100226/ Senate Committee Looks For Ways To Block White House Interference In Medical Research Grants Bipartisan Senate appropriators are looking for language that could be added to the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill that lawmakers hope to pass before stopgap funding expires Dec. 11, Roll Call reported. Meanwhile, STAT reported that NIH grants around race and health disparities saw cuts this year. https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/capitol-watch-100226/ After Botched Execution, Questions Swirl As Tennessee Inmate Receives Lifesaving Care At Vanderbilt Facility Christa Pike told the execution team that she felt burning and pain while they were trying to deliver the lethal drug into her system. Joel Zivot, a professor at Emory University School of Medicine who previously was retained by Pike's legal team as a medical expert, offered a theory that the IV lines failed during the procedure, causing pentobarbital to leak outside the veins rather than fully entering Pike's circulation, Newsweek wrote. Pike's prognosis is unclear. https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-breakout/execution-100226/

Should You Pick Up That Extra Shift? It May Not Pay Off

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/should-you-pick-extra-shift-it-may-not-pay-2026a10010hg?src= For the first 4 years of his career in emergency medicine, Alex Mohseni, MD, occasionally took on extra shifts at the Virginia hospital where he worked. He might cover for a colleague whose child was sick or work a shift that didn’t have an assigned doctor at all. “I was young and had some medical school debt,” said Mohseni. “I didn’t realize doctors were selling shifts to me because they were burnt out. Seven or 8 years later, I was the one handing off my shifts to other people.”

Florida Attorney General Sues Pfizer and CEO Over COVID-19 Vaccine Claims

https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/florida-attorney-general-sues-pfizer-and-ceo-over-covid-19-2026a10010t8?src= Oct 1 (Reuters) - Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Thursday filed a lawsuit against Pfizer and its CEO, Albert ⁠Bourla, accusing the drugmaker of misleading consumers about the safety and effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine. Here are more ⁠details: