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First Edition: Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025

December 23, 2025 Morning Briefing

Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations. NOTE TO READERS
The First Edition will not be published Dec. 24 through Jan. 2. Look for it again in your inbox on Jan. 5. Happy holidays from all of us at Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News!

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An Arm and a Leg: A Few More Good Things From 2025

By Dan Weissmann December 23, 2025 Podcast

“An Arm and a Leg” looks back on state laws passed in 2025 aimed at removing medical debts from credit reports and reining in corporate influence on medicine.

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Medical Bills Can Be Vexing and Perplexing. Here’s This Year’s Best Advice for Patients.

By Emmarie Huetteman December 23, 2025 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News Original

As the crowdsourced investigative series from Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News approaches its eighth anniversary, “Bill of the Month†offers its top takeaways of 2025 to help patients manage, decipher, and even fight their medical bills.

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After Outpatient Cosmetic Surgery, They Wound Up in the Hospital or Alone at a Recovery House

By Fred Schulte December 23, 2025 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News Original

Some patients who had liposuction or other surgeries later required emergency hospital care — and some died, court records show.

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A mother holds her 3-year-old daughter in her arms on their porch. The daughter is wearing a big smile.

It’s the ‘Gold Standard’ in Autism Care. Why Are States Reining It In?

By Bram Sable-Smith and Andrew Jones December 23, 2025 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News Original

States facing yawning budget shortfalls have begun cutting Medicaid reimbursements for a wide variety of services. In some states, dramatic cuts are targeting therapies that many families of autistic people say are essential to caring for their loved ones.

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Seasonal Viruses On The Rise As Holiday Travel Increases

December 22, 2025 Morning Briefing

As one of the busiest travel weeks begins, cases of flu, norovirus, and covid are on the upswing nationwide. Also: The CDC has reported two new flu-related deaths in children and nearly 5 million cases of influenza across the U.S.

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As Children Wait For Care, Lawsuit Delays Florida’s KidCare Expansion

December 22, 2025 Morning Briefing

Florida lawmakers unanimously passed the expansion two years ago, but an ongoing lawsuit Florida filed against CMS stands in its way. Other news from around the nation comes from Minnesota, Maryland, Colorado, California, and Louisiana.

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Viewpoints: Why Republicans Remain Divided On Health Care; Vaccines, Measles, And Future Of Public Health

December 22, 2025 Morning Briefing

Opinion writers tackle these public health topics.

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HPV Vaccines Prevent Much More Than Cervical Cancer, Study Finds

December 22, 2025 Morning Briefing

The research, published in JAMA Oncology, found that the rate of precancerous vulvar or vaginal lesions was 37% lower in those who’d gotten at least one dose of HPV vaccine. Also: proton beam radiation therapy, mpox, and more.

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Morning Briefing for Monday, December 22, 2025

December 22, 2025 Morning Briefing

Insurance and drug costs, Medicare and Medicaid, vaccines, mental hospital failures, gun deaths, seasonal viruses on the rise, and more.

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With ACA Prices Set To Soar, Trump Pushes Health Insurers To Lower Costs

December 22, 2025 Morning Briefing

President Donald Trump said Friday that he would meet with insurance companies soon to pressure them to lower patients’ prices, Bloomberg reported. Insurance companies “are making so much money, and they have to make less, a lot less,†Trump said. In other news, CMS has created an Office of Rural Health Transformation to oversee the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program.

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Nine Drugmakers Agree To Trump’s ‘Most-Favored-Nation’ Pricing Deal

December 22, 2025 Morning Briefing

The deal requires the pharmaceutical companies to match what they charge in other developed countries for newly launched medications, including in commercial and cash-pay markets, as well as Medicare and Medicaid.

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UnitedHealth Releases First External Review In Bid To Regain Public Trust

December 22, 2025 Morning Briefing

UnitedHealth has pledged to take close to two dozen specific actions across the areas in which the report found it lacking, including unresolved issues regarding patient care management, and prior authorizations. Plus, several Illinois hospitals with religious ties spurn medical aid-in-dying law.

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First Edition: Monday, Dec. 22, 2025

December 22, 2025 Morning Briefing

Today’s early morning highlights from the major news organizations.

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Criminally Ill: Systemic Failures Turn State Mental Hospitals Into Prisons

By Sarah Jane Tribble and Doug Livingston, The Marshall Project - Cleveland December 22, 2025 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News Original

There has been a steep rise in the share of people with severe mental illnesses being sent to state psychiatric hospitals on court orders after being accused of serious crimes. The shift has all but halted patients’ ability to get care before they have a catastrophic crisis.

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Baltimore Drove Down Gun Deaths. Now Trump Has Slashed Funding for That Work.

By Renuka Rayasam December 22, 2025 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News Original

A spike in shootings during the covid pandemic propelled community violence intervention, a field that aims to stop gun deaths at the root. Baltimore used federal funds to launch a violence prevention office. But President Donald Trump has throttled such funds and instead is sending troops into cities.

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Medicaid Health Plans Step Up Outreach Efforts Ahead of GOP Changes

By Claudia Boyd-Barrett December 22, 2025 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News Original

Even as President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers say the One Big Beautiful Bill Act targets waste, fraud, and abuse, Medicaid health plans are hosting events across the U.S. to prevent low-income families from losing health insurance and food benefits next year.

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Journalists Zero In on ‘Certificate of Need’ Laws and Turbulent Obamacare Enrollment Season

December 20, 2025 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News Original

Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News journalists made the rounds on regional media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a collection of their appearances.

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State Exchange Directors Seeing Consumers’ Fears — In Real Time — About Obamacare Premium Hikes

By Julie Appleby December 19, 2025 Ñî¹óåú´«Ã½Ò•îl Health News Original

Get our weekly newsletter, The Week in Brief, featuring a roundup of our original coverage, Fridays at 2 p.m. ET.

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Minnesota Fraud Inquiry Extends To 14 Medicaid-Funded Social Programs

December 19, 2025 Morning Briefing

Previously, federal prosecutors had been looking into only three safety net programs run by state agencies. Other news comes from Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, Iowa, Wyoming, Rhode Island, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania.

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