By: Jennifer Shutt, Ariana Figueroa, Ashley Murray and Jacob Fischler - June 24, 2025 Arkansas Advocate
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Republicans were scrambling Tuesday to restructure several proposals in the “big, beautiful bill” that don’t meet their chamber’s strict rules for passing a reconciliation package, while GOP lawmakers on the other side of the Capitol warned those changes may doom its passage in the House.
Baptist Health Neuroscience Center invites healthcare professionals to participate in the third annual Baptist Health Neuroscience Symposium on Oct. 10.
The symposium will be offered as a hybrid event for both on-site and virtual attendance. For those attending on-site, the event will be at the Hot Springs Convention Center, 134 Convention Blvd., in Hot Springs.
By: Ainsley Platt - June 26, 2025 Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas will receive $44.5 million of a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family for their role in the United States’ opioid epidemic.
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin announced the settlement share Wednesday, and said the state would begin receiving the money next year. The annual payments will continue until 2040.
By: Tess Vrbin - June 30, 2025 Arkansas Advocate
Fertility treatment advocates have expressed concerns about a new Arkansas law they say is meant to cast doubt on the effectiveness of assisted reproductive technology, even though the law does not penalize or prohibit such treatments.
By: Dianne Marie Normand Hartley
In a Monday press conference billed as “Secretary Kennedy, Administrator Oz to Host Press Conference to Discuss Groundbreaking Health Insurance Reform,” the topic was prior authorizations.
We won’t go into the weeds—you’ve heard it all before. In 2018. In 2023. And now again in 2025.
We weren’t in the room, but I imagine insurance executives were thrilled. Something along the lines of: “Thanks for not regulating us—of course we’ll begin to monitor ourselves. They’re starting to pop us out there.”
