Maia Anderson

Healthcare Brew reporter, @MorningBrew. Prev: @BusinessInsider, @BeckersHR, @Enquirer. She/her. Get in touch: [email protected]

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Sycamore Partners’ plan to takeover Walgreens ‘incredibly risky,’ analyst says

1 week ago | healthcare-brew.com | Maia Anderson

Walgreens is entering its private company era with Sycamore Partners’s take-private deal, announced in early March, to buy it for at least $22 billion. While getting off the public market can have its perks, analysts say the Walgreens Boots Alliance deal with the private equity (PE) firm could be risky, as it saddles the retail pharmacy giant with a significant amount of debt.
CVS names 2 new execs amid turnaround strategy

2 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Maia Anderson

CVS named two new executives to its leadership team as the company tries to bounce back from a year that saw its net income cut nearly in half. The retail pharmacy giant named UPS veteran Brian Newman as its new EVP and CFO and Press Ganey expert Amy Compton-Phillips as its new EVP and chief medical officer. Newman will take over the role on April 21 and Compton-Phillips starts on May 19, CVS announced on April 8.
Medicare, Medicaid won’t be required to cover GLP-1s for obesity, CMS says

2 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Maia Anderson

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) won’t go forward with a Biden-era proposal that would’ve required the government payers to cover GLP-1 drugs for obesity. In an announcement on April 7, CMS listed Part D coverage of anti-obesity medications as one of several Biden administration proposals for the 2026 contract year to be scrapped. The agency didn’t give details on why it decided against GLP-1 coverage, but said it might revisit the issue later on.
What is gender-affirming care, and what does it entail for minors?

3 weeks ago | healthcare-brew.com | Maia Anderson

It’s sniffles season. People with asthma commonly suffer from allergies, too. Help your patients understand their allergic triggers with ImmunoCAP™ Specific IgE blood tests. And with this lab ordering guide, providers can browse region-specific profiles to help patients identify local allergic triggers. Learn more. Lawmakers are increasingly working to restrict gender-affirming care.
How Black woman-focused health center Village of Healing is reducing health disparities in Cleveland

1 month ago | healthcare-brew.com | Maia Anderson

In 2020, Dána Langford read an analysis from Bloomberg CityLab that found her hometown Cleveland, Ohio, ranked second to last among major cities in the US for Black women’s health outcomes. As a certified nurse midwife, Langford was already well aware of the health disparities Black women face in the US, particularly when it comes to maternal mortality.
How proposed HIPAA regulations may impact providers’ bottom lines

1 month ago | healthcare-brew.com | Maia Anderson

HIPAA could soon get a long overdue makeover. In January, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) introduced the first new rule for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act—the law that protects patients’ private healthcare information—in more than 15 years. It came with a plethora of new regulations for how covered entities should go about protecting a patient’s health information. Covered entities include health plans, healthcare intermediaries, and providers.
How the Human Genome Project shaped modern medicine

1 month ago | healthcare-brew.com | Maia Anderson

When it comes to scientific achievements that have advanced the practice of medicine, you’d be hard pressed to find one more influential than the Human Genome Project. The project, a federally funded collaboration between scientists around the globe, began in October 1990 with the goal of improving our knowledge of human biology by sequencing an entire human genome, which is the complete set of DNA in a cell.
How social determinants of health play a role in patient health

1 month ago | healthcare-brew.com | Maia Anderson

Going to the doctor regularly is important, but it turns out getting there is not the biggest factor determining a patient’s overall health. Social determinants of health (SDOHs)—nonclinical and environmental factors including race, gender, ethnicity, housing status, and income level—can play a bigger role in a person’s health than access to healthcare or genetics, according to the CDC.
How a16z’s Julie Yoo decides which health tech startups are worth investing in

1 month ago | healthcare-brew.com | Maia Anderson

Each year hundreds of healthcare startups are founded globally—but roughly 90% of them eventually fail. Given the deluge, you may wonder how investors wade through the waters to find the gems. Julie Yoo, a general partner who joined the Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) bio and health fund team in 2019, walked Healthcare Brew through her process for vetting and working with healthcare startups. A16z is one of the largest venture capital (VC) firms in the world and manages $45 billion.
How Medicaid cuts could affect healthcare workers

1 month ago | healthcare-brew.com | Maia Anderson

Proposed Medicaid budget cuts could have a substantial effect on healthcare workers, experts say. The House of Representatives on Feb. 25 adopted a budget resolution calling for the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees the federal insurance program, to slash a minimum of $880 billion from its budget over the next eight years as part of the Trump administration’s $4.5 trillion tax-cut plan.