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

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the plan on Wednesday, which involves a data-sharing agreement between the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Centers for Medicare and ...

Kennedy said in a press release about the NIH-CMS partnership that the arrangement is meant “to uncover the root causes of autism and other ... use to gain access to Medicare and Medicaid ...

Researchers will be able to examine datasets to explore patterns, treatment outcomes and potential causes linked to autism.

Scientific research over the past 30 years has revealed a patchwork of potential causes of autism. Most of them are ...

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 agency ...

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 U.S. 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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan Wednesday to use medical data and records from people on Medicaid and Medicare to help study autism although experts say ...

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 ...