Thursday, January 22, 2026

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Congressional Hearing: Payer CEOs Under Bipartisan Scrutiny for Cost Controls (27) hot

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Ancient human remains shed new light on syphilis origins (4)

In Detail Full day, Thursday, January 22, 2026, Timezone: America/Chicago

‘Vertical integration is destroying people’s ability to access care’: Payer CEOs face bipartisan congressional grilling / Beckers

Jakob Emerson / beckershospitalreview - The CEOs of the nation’s largest health insurers drew the ire of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle during congressional hearings Jan. 22 over industry consolidation, prior authorization practices and executive pay, with members pressing executives to e…

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Congress Reins In Drug Middlemen in Effort to Lower Prescription Prices

5 wks / nytimes / Reed Abelson and Rebecca Robbins

When Health Insurance Costs More Than the Mortgage

5 wks / kffhealthnews / Renuka Rayasam

Is It Time to Change the Independent Dispute Resolution Process of the No Surprises Act?

5 wks / medcitynews / Marissa Plescia

Medication Affordability Depends on Total Price Transparency

5 wks / medcitynews / Miriam Paramore

Labor Department proposes PBM compensation disclosure rule for self-insured plans

5 wks / beckershospitalreview / Elizabeth Casolo

Could a unified AI platform relieve payer-provider tensions?

5 wks / beckershospitalreview / Elizabeth Casolo

Sick of fighting insurers, hospitals offer their own Medicare Advantage plans

5 wks / medicalxpress

Lack of regulation of short-term insurance plans cuts timely cancer treatment

5 wks / medicalxpress

KFF: Nearly 53M prior auth requests submitted in Medicare Advantage in 2024

5 wks / fiercehealthcare

A bad week for health insurers

5 wks / beckershospitalreview / Jakob Emerson

Providence CEO calls for Medicare Advantage ‘reset’ amid wave of network exits

6 wks / beckershospitalreview / Alan Condon

Watch: A Strange Checkup Bill Revealed a Firefighter’s Kids Were Mistakenly Uninsured

6 wks / kffhealthnews / Caresse Jackman, InvestigateTV

The case for transparent pricing: Making pharmacy benefits work for health plans

6 wks / healthcaredive / CVS Caremark

Is your billing system costing you too much?

6 wks / healthcaredive

Sick of Fighting Insurers, Hospitals Offer Their Own Medicare Advantage Plans

6 wks / kffhealthnews / Susan Jaffe

AHA outlines concerns with hospital price transparency proposals

6 wks / beckershospitalreview / Andrew Cass

‘Act like a payer’: A CFO’s strategy for margin growth

6 wks / beckershospitalreview / Laura Dyrda

Washington state lawmakers consider banning interest on medical debt

6 wks / beckershospitalreview / Andrew Cass

Healthcare’s Paper Check Problem

6 wks / medcitynews / Tom Davis

Insurance CEOs’ no good, very bad day on the Hill

6 wks / healthcaredive / Rebecca Pifer Parduhn

Express Scripts considering settlement in FTC insulin price lawsuit

6 wks / healthcaredive / Emily Olsen

Health Plan Transformation: HR Exec Shares How and Why an Employer Changed Its Approach to Healthcare

6 wks / medcitynews / Stephanie Baum

Insurance CEOs defend their businesses at House hearing

6 wks / endpoints / Shelby Livingston

Lawmakers Grill Health Insurance CEOs: 4 Key Takeaways

6 wks / medcitynews / Marissa Plescia

Big Insurers Try to Shift Blame for High Health Costs to Hospitals and Drug Makers

6 wks / nytimes / Reed Abelson

‘Vertical integration is destroying people’s ability to access care’: Payer CEOs face bipartisan congressional grilling

6 wks / beckershospitalreview / Jakob Emerson

Small business health insurance coverage at risk as costs rise, EBRI finds

6 wks / healthcaredive / Ginger Christ

Thursday, January 22, 2026, 9:22 pm / permalink 18314 / 27 stories in 6 wks

5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the Americas / LiveScience

livescience - An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was present in the Americas at least 3,000 years earlier than previously thought.

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What Do You Get When You Put a Mummy Through a CT Scan?

5 wks / nytimes / Emily Baumgaertner Nunn

Ancient bacterium discovery rewrites the origins of syphilis

6 wks / newscientist

5,500-year-old human skeleton discovered in Colombia holds the oldest evidence yet that syphilis came from the Americas

6 wks / livescience

5,500-Year-Old Human Remains Extend the Origins of Syphilis-Causing Bacteria by 3,000 Years

6 wks / discovermagazine

Thursday, January 22, 2026, 2:22 pm / permalink 18297 / 4 stories in 6 wks

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