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FTC, 17 States File Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon The long-expected antitrust action against Amazon finally came last week with the filing of a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western...
NC Budget Would Preempt Local Government Minimum Wage Rates The state budget ( HB 259 ) approved largely along party lines this month in North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature includes...
Medicaid Expansion Coming to NC in December North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) announced last week that the state will launch Medicaid expansion on Dec. 1, which will leave just 10 states that haven’t...
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress enacted the Families First Coronavirus Response Act , which among other things required state Medicaid programs to keep people continuously enrolled...
Biden Administration Seeks to Exclude Medical Debt from Credit Scores The Biden administration announced plans to develop new rules that would prevent unpaid medical bills from counting towards consumers’...
Three Florida residents have filed a lawsuit alleging health officials in that state aren’t notifying disabled and low-income residents about Medicaid redeterminations. The suit is the first legal challenge to the flurry of disenrollments from the program since federal pandemic-era coverage protections ended. (KFF HEALTH NEWS, AXIOS)
Roughly 77% of the employers who participated in the Business Group on Health’s 2024 Large Employer Health Survey reported an increase in the mental health needs of their employees. Last year 44% of employers reported such an increase. (POLITICO)
A new study found that ChatGPT was accurate at clinical decision-making 72% of the time. The study, published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, explored ChatGPT’s accuracy at differential diagnoses, diagnostic testing, final diagnosis and management based on patient age, gender, and case acuity. The technology performed best at making final diagnoses, with an accuracy rate of 77%, and was least effective at generating initial differential diagnoses, with an accuracy of 60%. (FIERCE HEALTHCARE)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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