The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services unveiled a new program for alternative payment model participants that would allow clinicians to use products containing CBD as part of patient care plans. In response, the Food and Drug Administration vowed not to further restrict the sale of oral hemp products.
Honor, a private duty homecare company, has acquired Home Instead, one of the largest in-home care providers in the U.S. The combined companies are worth $2.1 billion.
True or false? Each time a software developer significantly updates an FDA-approved Software as a Medical Device product, the SaMD faces possible re-review by the agency.
The more sure people feel that a COVID-19 vaccine will work as intended and won’t cause serious side effects or other harms, the more likely they are to accept a jab. Simple enough. However, the inverse does not necessarily hold.
It costs more to care for a chronically ill older person in the U.S. than in any of 11 Western countries, according to an analysis authored by researchers from each of the 11 and published Aug. 5 in Health Services Research.
![Pricing for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) varies significantly throughout the United States, according to new findings published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.[1] Researchers emphasized that higher prices were not necessarily associated with better patient outcomes. Photo by Karolina Grabowska via Pexels](/sites/default/files/styles/stack_views/public/2021-08/usa_healthcare_costs.jpg.webp?itok=-1MXOtbf)
