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Health care providers, trial lawyers reach deal to raise medical malpractice damages cap

The deal is a product of a more than two-decade-long fight between the politically powerful trial lawyers and Nevada doctors — and is a significant step down from other proposed caps of $2 million, $2.5 million and even no cap at all that were previously discussed this session.

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How Medicare Advantage could become a marquee issue in Nevada's 2024 Senate race

Though the 2024 midterms remain more than 600 days away, early Republican campaign attacks against Rosen are centering around a proposed new rule from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for Medicare Advantage, the capitated Medicare Part C program created in the 1990s that pays private insurers to cover seniors’ health care benefits. 

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