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NIH halts grant terminations ‘effective immediately,’ email says: Days after a federal judge ordered the restoration of more than 1,000 biomedical research grants, the National Institutes of Health is halting further terminations of grants, an internal email shows.
Since President Trump’s inauguration in January, the nation’s largest biomedical research funder has terminated an unprecedented number of research grants. The email obtained by STAT does not state the reason for the decision, but it came a week after a federal judge in Boston ruled that some of the terminations were “void and illegal” — and just hours after the judge refused the administration’s request to pause his order.
About health insurance/insurers
ACA marketplace enrollment could shrink by half : Marketplace enrollment could decline between 47% and 57% if premium tax credits expire and proposed changes in Congress become law, according to an analysis from Wakely, a healthcare market research firm .
About pharma
BREAKING: CVS PBM Hit With $95M Judgment For Overbilling Medicare A Pennsylvania judicial decision.
About healthcare IT
Federal court says copyrighted books are fair use for AI training: A federal judge this week ruled that artificial intelligence company Anthropic did not break the law when it used copyrighted books to train its chatbot, Claude, without the consent of the texts’ authors or publishers — but he ordered the company to go to trial for allegedly using pirated versions of the books.
About healthcare personnel
Gender Differences in Primary Care Physician Earnings and Outcomes Under Medicare Advantage Value-Based Payment: In this cohort study, women PCPs in value-based payment models had equal or better quality outcomes and higher value-based earnings compared to men in their practice groups. These results substantiate prior evidence that women physicians perform better on process and outcome measures, yet receive incommensurate patient ratings.The reversal of the gender gap under value-based payment is likely due to fewer emergency department visits and hospitalizations among women PCPs’ patients and may in turn reflect better alignment of value-based models to practice patterns more common in women (eg, more face-to-face time per visit). Equal pay could carry benefits beyond fair compensation, including reduced burnout and improved retention of the increasingly female primary care workforce to care for the aging US population.