During the COVID-19 public health emergency, states implemented numerous Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program policies and operational processes that helped to maintain coverage and support access to needed physical and...
To benefit fully from America’s health care system, people need both timely access to health care services and comprehensive health coverage to defray the cost of those services.
While the primary focus over the next two months will be on the fall general election, planning for the next fiscal year and 2023 legislative session is underway.
On September 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reopened the comment period for a November 2020 interim final rule titled “Additional Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released updated guidance for employers on several COVID-19-related issues, including when employees can be required to undergo testing for COVID-19, delays to the interactive process and mandatory...
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, as a local health department, partnered with health plans to pay for provider-initiated outreach for COVID-19 vaccine counseling for unvaccinated people through a program called the...
The U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, has certified two questions to the California Supreme Court about the liability of employers when an employee contracts COVID-19 at work and brings the virus home to a spouse.
In-home evaluations are early preventive health risk assessments within the home setting that are conducted by physicians and advance practice providers.
On Tuesday, March 29, 2022, just a day before her bill was slated to be heard in the Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) announced that she would hold the bill, which would have required all workers...
The temporary regulatory flexibilities implemented during the PHE expanded program eligibility and enrollment, enhanced remote service delivery options, authorized care delivery in alternative care sites, and much more.