Maya Goldman

New York

Healthcare Policy Reporter at Axios

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Articles

More people are listening to their peers instead of their doctors

3 days ago | axios.com | Justin Mack |Maya Goldman

Illustration: Shoshana Gordon/AxiosMore people across the globe are taking health decisions into their own hands, especially young adults, a new survey finds. Why it matters: Dwindling trust in legacy institutions in the wake of the pandemic could have health impacts for Hoosiers already dealing with disparities in our state's health care system. Driving the news: The communications firm Edelman surveyed more than 16,000 people across 16 countries in March.
China looks to grow its influence over WHO

1 week ago | axios.com | Maya Goldman

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/AxiosChina is becoming a top donor country to WHO after promising this month that it'll make a $500 million gift over five years to the group. Why it matters: President Trump announced in January that he's pulling the United States out of WHO, leaving a power vacuum within the global health consortium that Beijing is trying to fill.
China's biotech boom leaves U.S. playing catch-up

1 week ago | axios.com | Adriel Bettelheim |Maya Goldman

Illustration: Sarah Grillo/AxiosChina is now setting the pace in life sciences R&D, conducting more clinical trials than the U.S. and licensing new discoveries to American companies. The big picture: China has become a linchpin in global drug development, the result of a decade-long national strategy to develop a biopharmaceutical industry.
The cost of opioid addiction in Arkansas

1 week ago | axios.com | Maya Goldman

Data: Avalere Health; Map: Axios VisualsOpioid abuse is as much an economic problem as a public health one, according to a comprehensive analysis from Avalere provided to Axios. Why it matters: The total average annual cost to Arkansas for each case is $551,000. The big picture: The cost burden falls unevenly, with states in a belt stretching through Appalachia to New England typically having bigger caseloadsand a higher cost per case.
Exclusive: Opioid crisis cost North Carolina $117 B last year

1 week ago | axios.com | Laura Barrero |Maya Goldman

Data: Avalere Health; Map: Axios VisualsOpioid abuse is as much an economic problem as a public health one, according to a comprehensive analysis provided first to Axios that shows North Carolina spends more than $753,000 on each case. Why it matters: The cost burden falls unevenly across the country, with states in a belt stretching through Appalachia to New England typically having bigger caseloads and a higher cost per case.
Insurers warm to behavioral health in primary care

1 week ago | axios.com | Maya Goldman

Illustration: Annelise Capossela/AxiosInsurers increasingly are paying for behavioral health services that are delivered in coordination with primary care, according to a new claims analysis from Milliman. Why it matters: The idea of coordinating mental health care with physical health care has been around since the 1990s. But Medicare billing codes adopted in 2017 have made such arrangements viable in both private and public insurance markets, the report shows.
READ: MAHA Commission report slams corporate influence and "overmedicalization"

2 weeks ago | axios.com | Maya Goldman

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., testifies before a Senate committee. Photo by ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty ImagesPresident Trump's Make America Health Again Commission released a highly anticipated report Thursday that gives Americans a clearer sense of HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s health agenda. The big picture: The highly anticipated report hits some of RFK Jr.'s key targets: bad diets, overuse of medicine and corporate influence. Read the report below.
5 key takeaways from highly anticipated MAHA commission report

2 weeks ago | axios.com | Maya Goldman

Illustration: Brendan Lynch/AxiosPresident Trump's Make America Health Again Commission blamed factors including bad diets, chemical exposure and unnecessary medication for causing childhood chronic illness in a highly anticipated report released Thursday. Why it matters: The 68-page document from a panel led by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seeks to lay out a unifying theory around what's causing conditions like obesity, autoimmune conditions and behavioral disorders in kids.
Tennessee faces steep costs related to the opioid epidemic

2 weeks ago | axios.com | Adam Tamburin |Maya Goldman

Data: Avalere Health; Map: Axios VisualsA new analysis provided first to Axios shows the steep financial toll of the opioid crisis in Tennessee. Why it matters: The epidemic has ravaged Tennessee on several fronts. Overdose deaths hit the state particularly hard, even pulling down our life expectancy. The epidemic is an economic crisis as well. Families, businesses and local governments have faced a wave of unexpected costs.
The price Georgia pays for opioid misuse

2 weeks ago | axios.com | Maya Goldman |Thomas Wheatley

Data: Avalere Health; Map: Axios VisualsOpioid abuse is as much an economic problem as a public health one, according to a comprehensive analysis provided first to Axios that shows Georgia spends more than $730,000 on each such case. Why it matters: The cost burden falls unevenly across the country, with states in a belt stretching through Appalachia to New England typically having bigger caseloads and a higher cost per case.