Scoop: Ways and Means to mark up a 2-year telehealth extension next week

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NEW: The Mississippi House & Senate have reached a compromise to expand Medicaid. But it includes a mandatory work requirement — something the Biden admin will never approve. It requires the state to keep applying each year until CMS approves it with the work requirements.

SCOOP: A manufacturing issue with certain avian influenza tests was discovered earlier this week, but the CDC says no tests are inaccurate or need to be repeated.

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Give Sophie a follow!

The FTC has dropped its final changes to the health breach notification rule. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/0…

NEW: Donald Trump’s leave-abortion-to-the-states tack may be the least harmful position he can take as reproductive rights remain the favorite campaign trail cudgel of Joe Biden and Democrats post-Roe, according to a new POLITICO-Morning Consult poll. politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

BREAKING: The Arizona House voted Wednesday to repeal a 19th-century abortion ban that the state Supreme Court revived earlier this month. More here --> politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

USDA will now require dairy cattle to be tested for bird flu before moving across state lines. w/ Meredith Lee Hill David Lim
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What the FTC's ban on noncompete agreements means for doctors (and nonprofit hospitals)!*

*lawsuits tk
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SCOOP: HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra has spent more than $130,000 over the last year on “campaign consultants” and he or his emissaries have approached political firms about standing up a campaign to succeed Gavin Newsom in 2026, Christopher Cadelago and I report. politico.com/news/2024/04/2…

SCOTUS will hear arguments tomorrow on the clash between federal protections for patients in medical crises and Idaho’s near-total abortion ban. It comes as drs around the country beg for guidance on what counts as an emergency abortion. politico.com/news/2024/04/2… w/ Megan Messerly

New from me: The fight over weight-loss drug coverage between North Carolina’s state health plan, its PBM and the drugmaker is an example of how the U.S. drug pricing system can often keep patients from gaining access to highly effective treatments. politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

SCOOP: The Chinese Embassy has been quietly lobbying Congress against the legislation that would force ByteDance to sell TikTok politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

A tax policy investigation from me in POLITICO magazine. Greased by a sophisticated lobbying machine, 401(k)s have expanded dramatically over the past quarter-century. But the U.S. system lags behind our peers and has struggled to address elder poverty.

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NEW: HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra is considering leaving the Biden administration and running for California governor, Christopher Cadelago Dustin Gardiner Adam Cancryn scoop: politico.com/news/2024/04/0…

New with David Lim for POLITICO

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Sr Biden health officials briefed Congress today on avian flu, David Lim scoops. They told Hill staff:
—Still no sign of human-to-human spread
—Cow-to-cow spread may be happening via milking facilities
—No impact so far on price of milk and dairy products
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Scoop: CDC, FDA, ASPR and USDA briefed Congress on avian flu today.

CDC's Demetre Daskalakis said on the call that while the health risk to the public is low, people with long exposure to infected birds or livestock may be at greater risk of infection.

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NEW: Anti-abortion groups are preparing for a long game on IVF, strategizing how to get not only GOP lawmakers but evangelicals broadly to recognize life begins at conception — even if created in a lab. My latest with Alice Miranda Ollstein. politico.com/news/2024/04/0…