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Following President Trump’s busy first few weeks in office, this week’s graphic takes stock of the president’s health policy actions to date.

OMB memo causes significant confusion, Change cyberattack affected 190 million people, Cigna to limit out-of-pocket drug costs.

Michael McAuliff, politics and policy reporter for Modern Healthcare, joins host J. Carlisle Larsen to talk more about what healthcare programs could face spending cuts and reactions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill.

SCOTUS to hear challenge to ACA preventive care mandate, DEA proposes telehealth rule for controlled substances, FDA announces three regulations

Congress scrambles for a new funding deal, a report details the financial impacts of a mandatory bundled payment model, and a woman receives a genetically modified pig kidney transplant.

With the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, states were required to provide continuous enrollment for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) beneficiaries in exchange for enhanced federal funding.

This week’s graphic dives into how individual coverage health reimbursement arrangements (ICHRAs), a relatively new coverage option, are being received in the market.

On today’s episode of the Gist Healthcare podcast, we take a look at some of the healthcare issues that have become platforms for the presidential tickets, as well as how some down ballot races are approaching healthcare policy. Dan Diamond, national healthcare reporter for the Washington Post, joins us to talk healthcare policy and politics.

With Election Day less than six weeks away, this week’s graphic compares the positions of Vice President Harris and former President Trump on three of this cycle’s most important healthcare policy issues: competition, Medicare, and the cost of coverage.

FTC sues PBMs over insulin pricing, a House bill would extend telehealth flexibilities, and HRSA awards contracts for the new organ transplant system.

Amid increased bipartisan interest from policymakers on the nation’s increasing medical debt burden (estimated to total at least $220B), this week’s graphic examines who holds medical debt and how recent changes to credit reporting have affected them.

The House Oversight Committee criticizes PBM pricing tactics, Humana’s CenterWell plans to open primary care centers at Walmarts, and a federal judge upholds the FTC’s noncompete rule, diverging from a previous district court ruling.