The National Institutes of Health director said they were launching an autism registry — but a Health and Human Services official contradicted him.

Federal health officials didn’t provide information about how people’s private medical data will be collected and managed.

According to a 2023 JAMA Psychiatry study, 403,028 adults over nine years had autism claims, and 71.6 percent of them were continuously enrolled in Medicaid. Medicare is the U.S. government ...

The National Institutes of Health will use information from federal health insurance programs Medicare and Medicaid to create a "real-world data platform" to determine the cause of autism, the ...

The governor issued an executive order after the NIH announced plans to use the proposed database to discover a ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to tap into Medicare and Medicaid data in its search for the root causes ...

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - Federal health agencies will create a database of autism patients enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid that researchers will use to study the causes of autism spectrum ...

Kennedy Jr. is unveiling plans to give researchers access to data on Medicare and Medicaid enrollees with autism, though experts are doubtful that the effort will identify the condition’s causes. The ...

Growing demand for autism care is transforming medical office space, boosting MOB occupancy and attracting private equity ...

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