11.01.22
The 340B Drug Pricing Program, which was enacted in 1992 by Section 340B of the federal Public Health Services Act, requires pharmaceutical manufacturers that participate in the Medicaid program to provide covered outpatient drugs at significantly reduced prices to certain health care providers and ...
10.27.22
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 behavioral health services for children and adolescents.
10.19.22
Family planning, contraception counseling and abortion services are required elements of OB/GYN residency curricula and training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, the national accrediting body for all graduate medical education programs in the United ...
10.18.22
Hospital-at-home programs enable patients to receive acute care in their home environment.
10.17.22
On October 6, the expanded definition of electronic health information under the information blocking rule went into effect, in what the government hailed as “data liberation day.”
10.04.22
Health care leaders are operating in an environment of seismic change.
09.29.22
On September 27, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed two bills that collectively aim to strengthen privacy safeguards for individuals seeking abortion services.
09.28.22
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 Emergency.”
09.26.22
With the prices of homes and rentals continuing to climb alongside already high rates of housing insecurity, access to basic, safe, and clean housing is at risk for many people with low incomes across the country.
09.15.22
There is growing momentum among states to develop innovative models to help people involved with the justice system (i.e., justice-involved individuals) receive health care services covered by Medicaid while they are incarcerated.