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06/18/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #525 - 6/18/2026

Today's top stories:
- Fostering the Future: $1k accounts for foster youth
- Medicaid provider directory inaccuracies identified by OIG
- The health impact of noise pollution from AI data centers

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Editor's Notes: Melania Trump announced launch of "Fostering the Future" accounts for kids in foster care. The Treasury Department will seed $1,000 in these accounts for children and allow states, employers or anyone really to kick in additional funds. The accounts will invest in stock market. Ki...

06/17/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #524 - 6/17/2026

Today's top stories:
- Risks of the growing Kratom industry
- Aetna launches on-demand mental health
- Centene offers staff buyouts amid membership loss

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Editor's Notes: Kratom comes from the leaves of kratom trees and it's a pain reliever and energy booster you can buy at gas stations. The NY Times investigation looks at how the Kratom industry has been lobbying the Trump Administration (and RFK in particular) to keep Kratom largely de-regulated. In...

06/16/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #523 - 6/15/2026

Today's top stories:
- Medicare Advantage SNF denial trends
- Proposed medical debt loan programs
- Alzheimer’s blood test clinical utility

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Editor's Notes: Last week we reported on denials for nursing home admissions by some major Medicare carriers. The upshot: the Federal audit report showed that 161,000 denials were mostly NOT appealed by patients. Those denials that WERE appealed were almost always upheld. The result is an unnecessar...

06/15/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #522 - 6/15/2026

Today's top stories:
- Louisiana launches home respiratory test kits
- Aging at home: A growing healthcare market
- New research finds the brain can multitask

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Editor's Notes: Louisiana is launching an innovative test for state residents to help flag their susceptability to respiratory illness using a home test kit. Respiratory related conditions is one of the "four horsemen" of leading disease categories in the USA. Over 50% of Americans over 50 want to '...

06/12/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #521 - 6/12/2026

Today's top stories:
- Declining child Medicaid/CHIP enrollment
- Medicare Trust Fund outlook for 2033
- High denial rates for nursing home care by major insurers

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Editor's Notes: Indiana, Alaska, and Arizona had the sharpest declines in children enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP from 2025-2026. Medicare plans from CVS, United and Humana (among the largest private Medicare carriers) - had among the highest denial rates for nursing home coverage. We're running on a...

06/11/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #520 - 6/11/2026

Today's top stories:
- GSK acquires Nuvalent for $10.6B
- Trump admin warns 500+ hospitals on price transparency
- New guidelines for CKM syndrome screening

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Editor's Notes: We are on semi-auto mode this week - but some big stories: Three types of massive merger/acquisition deals this year: Hospital consolidations Funding for AI companies - and - Big Pharma buying small biotech firms - witness today's story on GSK. More evidence of abdominal fat contribu...

06/09/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #519 - 6/9/2026

Today's top stories:
- GLP-1s: New cancer research vs. employer coverage cuts
- Rise in double mastectomies among young adults
- 403% surge in autism therapy spending

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Editor's Notes: We are running on auto-pilot this week with "human 'kind of' in the loop" mode. A theme of GLP-1 drugs today: On one hand - more conditions may be treatable with GLP-1s And may be more options to frequency of injection (example below on obesity and once a month treatments). On the ot...

06/08/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #518 - 6/8/2026

Today's top stories:
- Abdominal fat & biological aging
- Q1 2026 Payer profit analysis
- Trump Admin advancing AI in medicine

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Editor Notes: Abdominal fat linked to mortality - patients need strategies beyond weight loss. John Oliver had done a piece on Medicaid companies in 2024 - and was sued by one of the companies cited. Court ruled in Oliver's favor. On the road this week - we'll try to do 1 or 2 issues nonetheless.

06/06/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #517 - 6/6/2026

Today's top stories:
- Scientists perform first precise human embryo gene editing
- RFK Jr. eyes private patient records for vaccine study
- NIH faces new political appointee overhauls

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Editor Highlights: See the article below: "In a First...", etc. This is about researchers who have found a way to more finely edit human DNA - down the 'letter' level. Recap: Almost all cells in your body have 46 chromosomes. Each chromosome contains a very long strand of wound-up DNA. That DNA is b...

06/05/2026

🏥 Daily C.R.A.P. Issue #516 - 6/5/2026

Today's top stories:
- New Medicaid work requirements & No Surprises Act rules
- Cigna drops GLP-1 coverage for employees
- Minnesota Medicaid provider revalidation chaos

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Editor's Highlights: Lot of press reactions to Trump Administrations "Interim Final Rule" (in other words: "final for now") on Medicaid Work Requirements. We give you the entire rule below (poking your eyes out may be more fun than reading this) - but the gist in the highlight table. This rule appli...

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