Brent Bierman
@brentbierman.bsky.social
Avid tennis fan, part owner of a lovely gray mare, editor on the health-care desk at @bloomberglaw.com. McClatchy, KR, VP/LS alum. IU grad. Retweets are just interesting stuff.
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The largest Medicaid claims processor has built a network of at least 1,800 engineers and analysts in India, rapidly increasing hiring in recent months, even though many of its state contracts require work to be done in the US unless waivers are issued.
Medicaid Middleman Ships Jobs, Tech to India Despite State Rules
The largest Medicaid claims processor has built a network of at least 1,800 engineers and analysts in India, rapidly increasing hiring in recent months, even though many of its state contracts require work to be done in the US unless waivers are issued.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The largest Medicaid claims processor has built a network of at least 1,800 engineers and analysts in India, rapidly increasing hiring in recent months, even though many of its state contracts require work to be done in the US unless waivers are issued.
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The Federal Trade Commission is weighing whether certain gender-affirming care practices are deceptive and need greater scrutiny, the agency’s leader said Wednesday.
Trump’s FTC Chair Looking for Deception in Gender-Affirming Care
The Federal Trade Commission is weighing whether certain gender-affirming care practices are deceptive and need greater scrutiny, the agency’s leader said Wednesday.
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July 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The Federal Trade Commission is weighing whether certain gender-affirming care practices are deceptive and need greater scrutiny, the agency’s leader said Wednesday.
A federal judge wrestled Thursday with the NIH’s reasons for terminating hundreds of research grants that are no longer in line with the Trump administration’s priorities. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
NIH Faces Skeptical Judge in Fight Over Slashed Research Grants
A federal judge wrestled Thursday with the NIH’s reasons for terminating hundreds of research grants that are no longer in line with the Trump administration’s priorities.
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May 22, 2025 at 5:32 PM
A federal judge wrestled Thursday with the NIH’s reasons for terminating hundreds of research grants that are no longer in line with the Trump administration’s priorities. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Medicaid work requirements will impose significant costs on states responsible for determining whether recipients are adhering to them. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Medicaid Work Requirements Pose Capacity Challenge for States
A nationwide mandate for Medicaid work requirements proposed by House GOP lawmakers would require states implement systems for identifying recipients with exemptions and verify beneficiaries who must ...
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May 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Medicaid work requirements will impose significant costs on states responsible for determining whether recipients are adhering to them. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
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Reproductive health centers are preparing for more aggressive threats from anti-abortion protesters as the Trump administration restricts enforcement of a decades-old federal law protecting access to clinics.
Abortion Clinics Boost Security as DOJ Limits Federal Shield Law
Reproductive health centers are preparing for more aggressive threats from anti-abortion protesters as the Trump administration restricts enforcement of a decades-old federal law protecting access to clinics.
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May 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Reproductive health centers are preparing for more aggressive threats from anti-abortion protesters as the Trump administration restricts enforcement of a decades-old federal law protecting access to clinics.
AstraZeneca failed to convince a federal appeals court that the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program is unconstitutional, dealing another blow the drug industry’s fight against the Biden-era plan. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
May 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
AstraZeneca failed to convince a federal appeals court that the Medicare Drug Price Negotiation Program is unconstitutional, dealing another blow the drug industry’s fight against the Biden-era plan. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
The Trump administration plans to advance research into the root causes of autism spectrum disorder through a partnership to build a data platform that utilizes medical claims data, electronic medical records, and data from consumer wearable devices. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
RFK Jr. Eyes Medicare Data to Study Root Causes of Autism
The Trump administration is planning to advance research into the root causes of autism spectrum disorder through a partnership to build a data platform that utilizes medical claims data, electronic m...
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May 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Trump administration plans to advance research into the root causes of autism spectrum disorder through a partnership to build a data platform that utilizes medical claims data, electronic medical records, and data from consumer wearable devices. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
A request from Arizona to introduce lifetime limits on Medicaid coverage could test the boundaries of the Trump administration’s authority to reshape the program, leaving the door open for similar restrictions across the country. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Medicaid Lifetime Limit Proposal Sets Stage for Legal Battle
A request from Arizona to introduce lifetime limits on Medicaid coverage could test the boundaries of the Trump administration’s authority to reshape the program, leaving the door open for similar res...
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May 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
A request from Arizona to introduce lifetime limits on Medicaid coverage could test the boundaries of the Trump administration’s authority to reshape the program, leaving the door open for similar restrictions across the country. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Health industry executives are welcoming Mehmet Oz’s embrace of telehealth to aid struggling rural hospitals, but say it may not be enough to stave off the devastating impact that deep cuts to Medicaid funding would bring. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Hospitals Scrutinize Oz’s Telehealth Pitch as Medicaid Cuts Loom
Health industry executives are welcoming Mehmet Oz’s embrace of telehealth to aid struggling rural hospitals, but say it may not be enough to stave off the devastating impact that deep cuts to Medicai...
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April 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Health industry executives are welcoming Mehmet Oz’s embrace of telehealth to aid struggling rural hospitals, but say it may not be enough to stave off the devastating impact that deep cuts to Medicaid funding would bring. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
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Health industry executives are welcoming Mehmet Oz’s embrace of telehealth to aid struggling rural hospitals, but say it may not be enough to stave off the devastating impact that deep cuts to Medicaid funding would bring.
Hospitals Scrutinize Oz’s Telehealth Pitch as Medicaid Cuts Loom
Health industry executives are welcoming Mehmet Oz’s embrace of telehealth to aid struggling rural hospitals, but say it may not be enough to stave off the devastating impact that deep cuts to Medicaid funding would bring.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Health industry executives are welcoming Mehmet Oz’s embrace of telehealth to aid struggling rural hospitals, but say it may not be enough to stave off the devastating impact that deep cuts to Medicaid funding would bring.
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The Trump administration is defying court orders and there isn’t much the Supreme Court can do to stop it.
Trump's willingness to skirt court orders is illustrating just how little power the federal judiciary has to enforce its decisions.
Trump's willingness to skirt court orders is illustrating just how little power the federal judiciary has to enforce its decisions.
Trump Defying Court Orders Is ‘Stress Test’ for the Judiciary
The Trump administration is defying court orders and there isn’t much the Supreme Court can do to stop it.
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April 17, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The Trump administration is defying court orders and there isn’t much the Supreme Court can do to stop it.
Trump's willingness to skirt court orders is illustrating just how little power the federal judiciary has to enforce its decisions.
Trump's willingness to skirt court orders is illustrating just how little power the federal judiciary has to enforce its decisions.
President Trump’s executive order to lower drug costs is filled with actions that policy analysts and patient groups say will reward the pharmaceutical industry while doing little to reduce health-care spending nationwide. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Trump Drug Pricing Order Spurs Doubts With Staff Cuts, Tariffs
President Donald Trump’s executive order to lower prescription drug costs is filled with actions that policy analysts and patient groups say will reward the pharmaceutical industry while doing little ...
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April 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
President Trump’s executive order to lower drug costs is filled with actions that policy analysts and patient groups say will reward the pharmaceutical industry while doing little to reduce health-care spending nationwide. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
ICYMI. A federal judge in Texas shot down a request from two liberal cities and a physician group to defend a Biden administration abortion rule in a lawsuit should the Trump administration drop out of the case. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Judge Blocks Cities From Defending HHS Abortion Privacy Rule
A federal judge in Texas shot down a request from two liberal cities and a physician group to defend a Biden administration abortion rule in a lawsuit should the Trump administration drop out of the c...
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April 16, 2025 at 2:16 PM
ICYMI. A federal judge in Texas shot down a request from two liberal cities and a physician group to defend a Biden administration abortion rule in a lawsuit should the Trump administration drop out of the case. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
RFK Jr.'s sweeping layoffs across federal health agencies are disrupting the work of drug, medical device, and food reviewers, forcing employees to pick up additional duties after administrative and support staff lost their jobs. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
FDA Cuts Threaten New Drugs as Reviewers Saddled With Extra Jobs
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sweeping layoffs across federal health agencies is disrupting the work of drug, medical device, and food reviewers, forcing employees to pick up additional duties...
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April 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
RFK Jr.'s sweeping layoffs across federal health agencies are disrupting the work of drug, medical device, and food reviewers, forcing employees to pick up additional duties after administrative and support staff lost their jobs. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
The epidemiology community is hoping a federal program to thwart infections among patients and health-care staff will emerge intact amid job cuts and reorganization at the CDC. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Specter of Job Cuts Looms Over CDC’s Infection-Tracking Efforts
The epidemiology community is hoping a federal program to thwart infections among patients and health-care staff will emerge intact amid job cuts and reorganization at the Centers for Disease Control ...
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April 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The epidemiology community is hoping a federal program to thwart infections among patients and health-care staff will emerge intact amid job cuts and reorganization at the CDC. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
EXCLUSIVE: The federal government loses billions each year because state Medicaid programs and their contractors routinely fail to catch even the most obvious fraud and misspending. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Medicaid’s Gatekeepers Fail to Catch Fraud, and Often Don’t Try
Taxpayers are losing billions of dollars each year because state health departments and their Medicaid contractors, led by Gainwell Technologies Inc., routinely fail to catch, and sometimes ignore, ev...
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April 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
EXCLUSIVE: The federal government loses billions each year because state Medicaid programs and their contractors routinely fail to catch even the most obvious fraud and misspending. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
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A string of lawsuits targeting the use of AI and algorithms in claims denials is raising risks for private health insurers and employers, even as the litigation encounters early obstacles.
AI, Algorithm-Based Health Insurer Denials Pose New Legal Threat
A string of lawsuits targeting the use of artificial intelligence and algorithms in claims denials is raising risks for private health insurers and employers, even as the litigation encounters early o...
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April 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A string of lawsuits targeting the use of AI and algorithms in claims denials is raising risks for private health insurers and employers, even as the litigation encounters early obstacles.
Consumer policy watchers are leery of Dr. Oz's support for using AI to streamline the prior approval process for Medicare managed care plans. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Oz's Call for AI to Speed Coverage Decisions Draws Objections
Mehmet Oz, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, used his Senate confirmation hearing Friday to tout the benefits of artificial intelligence to help st...
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March 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Consumer policy watchers are leery of Dr. Oz's support for using AI to streamline the prior approval process for Medicare managed care plans. news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
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Want to keep track of the lawsuits filed against President Trump's executive orders and actions?
Here's what has been done so far:
Here's what has been done so far:
Tracking Trump in Court: The Scope of Executive Power Tested
Judges appointed by every president since Ronald Reagan are handling the wave of litigation filed over President Donald Trump’s early actions — including some appointed during his first term.
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February 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Want to keep track of the lawsuits filed against President Trump's executive orders and actions?
Here's what has been done so far:
Here's what has been done so far:
Employers and consumer advocates hope President Trump will tighten requirements of price transparency measures and boost enforcement against the health-care industry following his executive order this week. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Trump Health Transparency Order Sparks Hope of Enforcement Boost
Employers and consumer advocates are hoping President Donald Trump will tighten requirements of price transparency measures and boost enforcement against the health care industry following his executi...
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February 27, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Employers and consumer advocates hope President Trump will tighten requirements of price transparency measures and boost enforcement against the health-care industry following his executive order this week. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
The Trump administration’s laser focus on curtailing illegal immigration could test Medicaid programs that offer various forms of the low-income insurance benefit to patients regardless of immigration status, lawyers say. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Medicaid Set for Scrutiny as Trump Targets Immigration
The Trump administration’s laser focus on curtailing illegal immigration could test Medicaid programs that offer various forms of the low-income insurance benefit to patients regardless of immigration...
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February 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The Trump administration’s laser focus on curtailing illegal immigration could test Medicaid programs that offer various forms of the low-income insurance benefit to patients regardless of immigration status, lawyers say. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
NEW: The HHS is directing employees to answer a government-wide message asking workers to share their recent accomplishments, telling them that it’s a legitimate email. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
HHS Tells Staff to Respond to Email Asking Them to Describe Work
The Department of Health and Human Services is directing employees to answer a federal government-wide message asking workers to share their recent accomplishments, telling them that it’s a legitimate...
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February 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
NEW: The HHS is directing employees to answer a government-wide message asking workers to share their recent accomplishments, telling them that it’s a legitimate email. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
ICYMI. The FDA started reversing termination notices for some employees that were laid off, informing workers to return to work after mass firings a week ago. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
FDA Begins to Rescind Firings, Calls Some Employees Back to Work
The FDA late Friday started reversing termination notices for some employees that were laid off, informing workers to return to work after mass firings a week ago.
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February 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
ICYMI. The FDA started reversing termination notices for some employees that were laid off, informing workers to return to work after mass firings a week ago. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
A federal judge paused a legal battle between the HHS and a children’s clinic over a transgender health-care rule following a change in priorities announced by the Trump administration. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
Lawsuit Over Biden's Transgender Health Rule Paused by Judge (1)
A federal judge paused a legal battle between the US Department of Health and Human Services and a children’s clinic over a transgender health-care rule following a change in priorities announced by t...
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February 20, 2025 at 4:44 PM
A federal judge paused a legal battle between the HHS and a children’s clinic over a transgender health-care rule following a change in priorities announced by the Trump administration. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
The HHS is withdrawing guidance on gender-affirming care in an effort to support executive actions from President Trump. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...
HHS Civil Rights Office Rescinds Gender Affirming Care Guidance (1)
Gender affirming care guidance is being withdrawn by the US Department of Health and Human Services in effort to support executive actions from President Donald Trump.
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February 20, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The HHS is withdrawing guidance on gender-affirming care in an effort to support executive actions from President Trump. #healthpolicy news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-a...