- Dentist pay by state, adjusted for cost of living
- Washington dental practice suffers data breach
- Penn State Health consolidates psychiatric, behavioral health services
- Rogers Behavioral Health workers vote to unionize
- 3 dental leadership moves to know
- Hawaii outpatient center project gets $50M state boost
- 4 dentists making headlines
- Denials, delays and burdens keep growing: 10 new findings on prior auth
- Texas Children’s to pay $10M, open ‘detransition clinic’ in gender care settlement
- 10 infected, 3 dead in hantavirus outbreak: 5 updates
- 3 practical ways hospitals can improve care for older adults now
- Trump bought Eli Lilly stock as his administration cleared path for Medicare GLP-1 coverage
- Apex Dental Partners adds new equity partners
- The pharmacy strategy that helped avoid 512 drug stockouts
- Community Health Network taps foundation president
- Missouri system names COO
- Physician-owned, independent surgical group notches 50 years in practice
- City of Hope Chicago names integrative oncology chief
- Ascension operating margin improves to -1.1% in FYQ3: 8 things to know
- Healthcare software company founder convicted in $1B physician kickback fraud scheme
- WHO declares global health emergency over Ebola: 5 notes
- California ASC experiences data breach
- SAMHSA awards $255M for 988 lifeline administration
- The cash-pay revolution
- Inside Centerstone’s strategy to manage high-acuity 988 calls
- Rapid Weight Loss Beats Slow and Steady in New Clinical Trial
- Medtronic Bets on Cardiovascular Realignment Amid Stock Pressure and Facility Closures
- Medtronic Bets on Cardiovascular Realignment Amid Stock Pressure and Facility Closures
- AstraZeneca notches key FDA nod in hypertension, with an approval sweetener for Fasenra too
- Merck, Kelun score with sac-TMT in endometrial cancer trial
- Pregnancy Safe For Women With Myasthenia Gravis, Study Concludes
- Smog Linked To Lewy Body Dementia Risk, Major Study Finds
- Daiichi, AstraZeneca’s Enhertu breaks into early breast cancer with dual FDA approvals
- Bristol Myers looks at Houston for potential $1B manufacturing plant
- NYC Mold Removal Program Cut Asthma ER Cases By A Quarter, Study Says
- Single Psilocybin Dose Provides Rapid Relief From Depression, Small Clinical Trial Finds
- Trump Demands Medicaid Data For Deportation. Some States Go A Step Further
- A Danish Couple’s Maverick African Research Finds Its Moment in RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Policy
- Trump Bought Stock in Drugmaker as His Government Boosted Its Obesity Drugs
- Kids Keep Getting Stuck in Hospitals, Even After Being Cleared for Discharge
- FDA Blocked Melanoma Drug As Confusion Reigned Under Makary
- Journalists Unpack Latest on Vaccines, Vaping, and TrumpRx
- Behavioral healthcare’s next challenge: Defining quality access
- CMS pulls back limits on non-standard ACA plans in final rule
- The behavioral health bottleneck keeping patients stuck in repeat crises
- Lenders to assume control of Affordable Care as part of restructuring deal: 5 notes
- Kennedy Swaps Vaccine Rhetoric for Story Time but Can’t Quite Change the Subject
- Where have all the independent physicians gone?
- Psychiatrist pay falls despite broader physician compensation growth: 5 notes
- The payer mistake draining ASC revenue
- Pharmaceutical company to pay $13.7M to settle allegations of improper physician payments
- Surgical tech pay by state, adjusted for cost of living | 2026
- Providence partners on AI model for mental health crises
- Arizona AG touts behavioral health fraud crackdown progress
- 5 federal government, policy updates for dentists to know
- Supply costs, payer challenges drag CommonSpirit Health to -5.8% operating margin in fiscal Q3
- 5 DSOs making headlines
- 10 troubling stats on the state of the dental workforce
- FDA Approves AI Sepsis Tool That Detects Infection Hours Earlier Than Doctors
- Texas Children's Hospital agrees to launch nation's first 'detransition clinic' to settle state, DOJ investigation
- NYC Health + Hospitals launches behavioral health workforce program
- Tennessee dentist retires after 40+ years of services
- Roche's ctDNA-guided approach in post-surgical bladder cancer pays off with Tecentriq nod
- Turn Language Access into an Operational Advantage
- Docs remain skeptical of insurers' pledge to ease prior auth: AMA survey
- UPDATED: After Makary departure, acting CDER chief Høeg and CBER's Szarama exit top FDA posts
- PCOS Gets a New Name in Landmark Women's Health Shift
- Op-ed: Making America healthy again requires more than a committee
- Eisai's slow push toward blockbuster Leqembi sales gains steam with $900M forecast
- Washington AG alleges Providence failed to accommodate pregnant, nursing employees
- SCOTUS temporarily restores telehealth access to abortion pill mifepristone
- SCOTUS temporarily restores telehealth access to abortion pill mifepristone
- Major Review: Antidepressants Safe in Pregnancy, No Added Risk of Autism or ADHD in Kids
- New Wearable Polygraph Tracks Hidden Stress In Babies, Adults
- How Gun Violence News Coverage Is Harming America's Mental Health
- Health execs persevere in new policy landscape
- AI Chatbots Lure U.S. Teens With Fun, Romance and Hidden Dangers
- License To Deliver: Some Midwives Break The Law To Assist With Home Births
- Minnesota Lawmaker Proposes Using Hospital Tax To Fill Charity Care Gap
- FDA Blocked Melanoma Drug as Confusion Reigned Under Makary
- Kennedy, Balancing MAHA and White House, Says He Won’t Run for President in 2028
- As biologics dominate biopharma pipelines, manufacturing hurdles trip up new launches: report
- Epic grows EHR footprint among small health systems even as overall market sales decline in 2025
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- Bipartisan lawmakers reintroduce bill barring PBMs from owning pharmacies
- Health Tech Weekly Rundown: Headspace app launches on Apple Watch; Visby, RAINN partner on safe access program
- Epic, Oracle and Cleveland Clinic among companies to joining CMS prior authorization initiative
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- CMS to withhold $1.3B in Medicaid funds from California, puts state officials on notice about fraud
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- After-School Sports An Overall Boon To Children And Teens, Study Shows
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- FDA Launches One-Day Inspectional Assessments to Strengthen and Expand Oversight
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- FDA Expands AI Capabilities: Launches ELSA and Completes HALO Data Platform Consolidation
- Roche acquires PathAI to transform AI-driven diagnostics
- Roche acquires PathAI to transform AI-driven diagnostics
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- Trump Planning to Fire FDA Commissioner Marty Makary
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- Why Gen AI is a Win for MedTech: And, How to Unlock its Potential with the Right Policies
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- The Medical Device Cybersecurity Gap Hiding in Plain Sight
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- Maintaining trust in medical AI: Monitoring and managing model lifecycle
- Maintaining trust in medical AI: Monitoring and managing model lifecycle
- Remarks at the Conference on Financial Market Regulation
Hear me now: when education and license laws require tweaking like this, we are SERIOUSLY overregulated.
Non-health policy items are italicized.
Thursday, January 22, 2026 9:00 AM
AGENDA
HB 4908 (Rep. Rigas)
Occupations: cosmetologists; shampoo services performed in a cosmetology establishment by certain cosmetology apprentices; allow.HB 4909 (Rep. Rigas)
Occupations: cosmetologists; record retention requirements for cosmetology schools; revise.HB 5450 (Rep. Beson)
Food: service establishments; annual fire inspections for food trucks; provide for.HB 5451 (Rep. Aragona)
Food: service establishments; annual fire inspections for food trucks; provide for.Presentation on Bitcoin.
OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE
'Tis a leisurely legislative session.
(Much to be preferred over a busy one, where your freedoms are concerned.)
Thursday, February 19, 2026 9:00 AM
AGENDA
HB 4908 (Rep. Rigas)
Occupations: cosmetologists; shampoo services performed in a cosmetology establishment by certain cosmetology apprentices; allow.HB 4909 (Rep. Rigas)
Occupations: cosmetologists; record retention requirements for cosmetology schools; revise.HB 5450 (Rep. Beson)
Food: service establishments; annual fire inspections for food trucks; provide for.HB 5451 (Rep. Aragona)
Food: service establishments; annual fire inspections for food trucks; provide for.HB 5045 (Rep. BeGole)
Housing: other; redemption of premises; modify.HB 5046 (Rep. O'Neal)
Civil procedure: foreclosure; recording of deed; modify.HB 5343 (Rep. Aragona)
Liquor: spirits; definition of mixed spirit drink; modify.OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE
The revision of tomorrow's agenda does not impact health policy.
Thursday, February 19, 2026 9:00 AM
AGENDA
HB 4908 (Rep. Rigas)
Occupations: cosmetologists; shampoo services performed in a cosmetology establishment by certain cosmetology apprentices; allow.HB 4909 (Rep. Rigas)
Occupations: cosmetologists; record retention requirements for cosmetology schools; revise.HB 5450 (Rep. Beson)
Food: service establishments; annual fire inspections for food trucks; provide for.HB 5451 (Rep. Aragona)
Food: service establishments; annual fire inspections for food trucks; provide for.HB 5045 (Rep. BeGole)
Housing: other; redemption of premises; modify.HB 5046 (Rep. O'Neal)
Civil procedure: foreclosure; recording of deed; modify.HB 5343 (Rep. Aragona)
Liquor: spirits; definition of mixed spirit drink; modify.HB 5529 (Rep. Grant)
Land use: land division; parcel and lot size requirements; limit.HB 5530 (Rep. Wortz)
Land use: zoning and growth management; minimum residential lot size requirements; limit.HB 5531 (Rep. Neeley)
Land use: zoning and growth management; required studies and documents for site plan approval; limit.HB 5532 (Rep. Aragona)
Land use: zoning and growth management; city or village zoning ordinance amendment; revise protest petition requirements.OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE
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