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  • 1 month ago | wgbh.org | Ryan Levi

    March 20, 2025 Mehmet Oz — the surgeon-turned-TV-star better known as Dr. Oz — faced senators on Capitol Hill last week, asking them to confirm him as the new head of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

  • 1 month ago | npr.org | Ryan Levi |Dan Gorenstein

    Mehmet Oz — the surgeon-turned-TV-star better known as Dr. Oz — faced senators on Capitol Hill last week, asking them to confirm him as the new head of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. "I commit to doing whatever I can, working tirelessly to ensure that CMS provides Americans with access to superb care, especially Americans who are most vulnerable: our young, our disabled, and our elderly," Oz told the members of the Senate Finance Committee in his opening statement.

  • 1 month ago | wsiu.org | Ryan Levi

    The use of AI in hospitals in the United States is wide ranging, with roughly two-thirds of U.S. hospitals using these predictive algorithms. But did you know that only about 60% of those hospitals are testing these algorithms for accuracy, and less than half are testing them for bias? So, The Checkup’s question is: How can hospitals’ use of AI affect patients? Side Effects Public Media’s Community Engagement Specialist Lizzy McGrevy spoke with Ryan Levi about that.

  • 2 months ago | npr.org | Ryan Levi

    From left: U.S. Vice President JD Vance, Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, Senator John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, President Donald Trump, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican from West Virginia, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, speak to the media on Jan. 8, 2025.

  • 2 months ago | wfyi.org | Ryan Levi

    January 29, 2025Unable to load the audio player. You could try direct download? With President Trump’s inauguration, Republicans are officially in control in Washington. Congressional leaders are looking to make big reductions to federal spending, and they’ve singled out Medicaid as a program where they could find lots of savings.

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Ryan Levi
Ryan Levi @ryan_levi
18 Apr 25

RT @maxdkozlov: Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwest…

Ryan Levi
Ryan Levi @ryan_levi
18 Apr 25

RT @ddiamond: DOGE has abruptly imposed new “defend the spend” rules before paying out federal health-care grants It’s forcing manual revi…

Ryan Levi
Ryan Levi @ryan_levi
17 Apr 25

The ACA is going back to the Supreme Court. The case involves a provision that requires insurers to cover certain preventive care for conditions like cancer and HIV for free. @nicholas_bagley breaks down the case and the implications on @tradeoffspod: https://t.co/1oZSj8mUS3