- NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln taps new CFO
- The US job market in 5 numbers — and what it means for healthcare
- Cleveland Clinic more than triples operating income in Q1
- The physician noncompete battle intensifies
- Mercy names chief people officer
- Iowa hospital names CEO
- 5 orthopedic surgeons leading policy change
- Ardent’s Lovelace, BCBS New Mexico face split
- Oregon spine practice opens ASC
- Cardiologist pay by state, adjusted for cost of living | 2026
- Viewpoint: The DSO model is entering its strongest phase yet
- Healthfirst integrates community health workers into pediatric care
- 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
- Apex Dental Partners adds new equity partners
- Physician-owned, independent surgical group notches 50 years in practice
- Healthcare software company founder convicted in $1B physician kickback fraud scheme
- 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
- Kids Keep Getting Stuck in Hospitals, Even After Being Cleared for Discharge
- Trump Bought Stock in Drugmaker as His Government Boosted Its Obesity Drugs
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Kennedy, Balancing MAHA and White House, Says He Won’t Run for President in 2028
- FDA Blocked Melanoma Drug as Confusion Reigned Under Makary
- 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
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- FDA Expands AI Capabilities: Launches ELSA and Completes HALO Data Platform Consolidation
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- Roche acquires PathAI to transform AI-driven diagnostics
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- Maintaining trust in medical AI: Monitoring and managing model lifecycle
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This is a catch-up post bringing this committee's agendas up to date in the forum. Health policy bills are in bold. Those with none are omitted.
Thursday, June 5, 2025 9:00 AM
AGENDA
HB 4352 (Rep. Tyrone Carter)
Water supply: systems; authority as municipal authority; modify.HB 4353 (Rep. Tyrone Carter)
Water supply: systems; authority as municipal authority; modify.HB 4354 (Rep. Mueller)
Water supply: systems; authority as municipal authority; modify.HB 4355 (Rep. Mueller)
Water supply: systems; authority as municipal authority; modify.HB 4403 (Rep. Wendzel)
Liquor: other; leasing, selling, and transferring portions of certain alternating proprietors under approval of commission; allow.HB 4493 (Rep. Thompson)
Food: licensing; licensure exemptions; modify to include certain disabled individuals.HB 4428 (Rep. St. Germaine)
Health: pharmaceuticals; choice of formulation, dosage, and route of administration for opioid antagonists by certain persons and governmental entities if department of health and human services distributes opioid antagonists free of charge; allow.HB 4417 (Rep. Mueller)
Health occupations: emergency medical services personnel; access to opioid antagonists; provide to life support agencies under certain circumstances.OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE
A modified agenda deleted HB 4428 before the meeting.
Thursday, June 12, 2025 9:00 AM
AGENDA
HB 4403 (Rep. Wendzel)
Liquor: other; leasing, selling, and transferring portions of certain alternating proprietors under approval of commission; allow.HB 4493 (Rep. Thompson)
Food: licensing; licensure exemptions; modify to include certain disabled individuals.HB 4417 (Rep. Mueller)
Health occupations: emergency medical services personnel; access to opioid antagonists; provide to life support agencies under certain circumstances.HB 4042 (Rep. Tyrone Carter)
Food: service establishments; exemption for certain outdoor event spaces; provide for.HB 4398 (Rep. Wortz)
Liquor: hours; guidelines regarding resolution to repeal prohibition of alcohol sales; modify.HB 4549 (Rep. Aragona)
Occupations: vehicles, dealers, and repair facilities; owner of a motor vehicle repair facility to operate an additional facility under the same registration; allow.Presentation from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS).
OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE
The following committee meeting was cancelled. The bill highlighted in bold may impact healthcare, and bears looking into.
It's a matter of ongoing debate whether cannabis bills are part of health policy. MHF considers cannabis in Michigan a state-run enterprise with no up side for individual freedom. Bills are thus not scoreable for purposes of the legislative report card.
Thursday, August 28, 2025 9:00 AM
AGENDA
HB 4595 (Rep. Linting)
Liquor: licenses; issuance of specially designated merchant license or specially designated distributor license; allow for certain locations.HB 4282 (Rep. Koleszar)
Liquor: licenses; license to sell alcoholic liquor for consumption on the premises of certain locations; modify.HB 4700 (Rep. Schuette)
Liquor: licenses; eligibility for Class A hotel license or Class B hotel license; modify.HB 4711 (Rep. Hoadley)
Liens: other; requirements for self-service storage rental agreements; provide for.HB 4663 (Rep. VanderWall)
Liquor: licenses; certain donations to nonprofits; allow.HB 4745 (Rep. Woolford)
Businesses: charitable organizations; exemptions from registration and reporting requirements; modify.Presentation from the Cannabis Regulatory Agency.
OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE
The hoary "veterinarian relationship" bill is back.
Thursday, October 16, 2025 9:00 AM
AGENDA
HB 4774 (Rep. Fairbairn)
State management: purchasing; architectural services, engineering services, and land surveying services for state contracts; modify policies and procedures for the selection of.HB 4220 (Rep. Aragona)
Health occupations: veterinarians; veterinarian-client-patient relationship; require.HB 4221 (Rep. Pohutsky)
Health occupations: veterinarians; veterinarian-client-patient relationship; require.HB 5092 (Rep. Bierlein)
Animals: exotic; breeding license requirements; modify.HB 4711 (Rep. Hoadley)
Liens: other; requirements for self-service storage rental agreements; provide for.HB 4825 (Rep. Witwer)
Corporate income tax: credits; distributor credit for returnable containers; provide for.OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE
This final agenda was modified before the meeting to add four marijuana bills.
Thursday, October 23, 2025 9:00 AM
AGENDA
HB 4711 (Rep. Hoadley)
Liens: other; requirements for self-service storage rental agreements; provide for.HB 4825 (Rep. Witwer)
Corporate income tax: credits; distributor credit for returnable containers; provide for.HB 4745 (Rep. Woolford)
Businesses: charitable organizations; exemptions from registration and reporting requirements; modify.HB 4692 (Rep. Rigas)
Occupations: cosmetologists; branch facilities for a school of cosmetology; provide for.HB 4693 (Rep. Liberati)
Occupations: cosmetologists; cosmetology licensing fees; modify.HB 4254 (Rep. Aragona)
Animals: care and treatment; conducting of research or training activities on dogs in a manner that causes pain or distress; prohibit.OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE
This is the final hearing on this thread's topics, and the first on the Kratom bill, so I'll duplicate it with more information in a fresh post.
I've emphasized health policy bills in bold.
Thursday, October 30, 2025 9:00 AM
AGENDA
HB 4745 (Rep. Woolford)
Businesses: charitable organizations; exemptions from registration and reporting requirements; modify.HB 4692 (Rep. Rigas)
Occupations: cosmetologists; branch facilities for a school of cosmetology; provide for.HB 4693 (Rep. Liberati)
Occupations: cosmetologists; cosmetology licensing fees; modify.HB 4254 (Rep. Aragona)
Animals: care and treatment; conducting of research or training activities on dogs in a manner that causes pain or distress; prohibit.HB 4969 (Rep. Cavitt)
Food: other; regulation of distribution, sale, and manufacturing of kratom products; provide for.HB 4963 (Rep. Aragona)
Marihuana: other; marihuana licensees; require to pay for marihuana at the time of sale.Presentation from Lume.
OR ANY BUSINESS PROPERLY BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE
Today's agenda included two more cosmetology bills.
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