STAT+: Doctors on Kennedy’s influential preventive care panel have major conflicts of interest, filings reveal
WASHINGTON — Federal officials have granted blanket waivers to every member of an influential, yet little-known federal panel that evaluates preventive medical services, allowing them to serve despite some having clear financial stakes in decisions they might make.
Key points
- In the case of two members, the documents show that they own private medical practices that could profit should the panel recommend particular types of care.
- Preventive Services Task Force, especially the newer ones, have more extensive conflicts than others.
- The waivers, signed by a top federal official and obtained by STAT, show a willingness by health secretary Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.’s department to overlook financial conflicts of interests, though Kennedy frequently decries corporate influence in health care.
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