Among young adults with kidney failure, the expansion of Medicaid following the Affordable Care Act signed into law in 2010 was associated with substantial declines in one-year death rates, researchers from Brown University found in a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Findings from a study supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have identified a new model for predicting outcomes for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a heart condition with a prevalence of 1 in 500 people and a frequent cause of sudden cardiac death. Specifically, the findings demonstrate that incorporating prospective data including clinical history, imaging, and blood biomarker data into risk assessment can improve prediction of adverse cardiac events in people with HCM.  

Telemedicine has not significantly increased visits and medical spending across all payer types, which could ease concerns among lawmakers that the telemedicine expansion that occurred during the COVID pandemic would result in large utilization and spending increases.