The number of children enrolled in health insurance has increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent report from the Urban Institute found, but that could change if pandemic-era policies are allowed to expire.
The destruction of civil rights and health care caused by the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center abortion decision rivals that of infamous cases which upheld segregation and internment camps, one lawyer said during an American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists webinar in partnership with New York University.
Pfizer applied Thursday (June 30) for FDA approval of its oral coronavirus antiviral Paxlovid for use in patients at high-risk of severe illness, regardless of vaccination status -- a request that if granted would let Pfizer start advertising the drug and sell it on the private market.
The number of children enrolled in health insurance has increased since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent report from the Urban Institute found, but that could change if pandemic-era policies are allowed to expire.
Maternal health advocates say passing mandatory one-year Medicaid postpartum coverage is now a matter of life-and-death for women of child-bearing age since the Supreme Court removed national abortion protections last week when it overturned Roe v. Wade, and Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL) is pushing to get such coverage included in Democrats’ emerging skinny reconciliation legislation.
The Biden administration on Thursday (June 30) made available several resources to help the health sector transition to clean energy and reduce emissions and urged more health care stakeholders to participate in the administration’s climate response initiative, coming the same day the Supreme Court issued an opinion that restricts the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate carbon emissions produced by power plants.
The National Kidney Foundation is deeply concerned that the Supreme Court’s ruling on dialysis coverage will severely impact patients’ access to care for end stage renal disease as private plans are given the opportunity to reduce their reimbursement rates, and the group is now doubling down on its push for Medigap expansion legislation and other policies that protect affordable dialysis care.
Democratic senators and governors are pressing congressional leaders to jumpstart their stalled plan to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that expire at the end of the year in order to avoid premium hikes and a coverage gap as the Congressional Budget Office predicts that, absent congressional action, the enrollment boosts due to those higher subsidies won’t completely dissipate until 2024.
The Supreme Court’s just-issued decision restricting the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act authority to regulate power-sector greenhouse gases is elevating the importance of the judicial “major questions” doctrine, which imposes strict scrutiny on agency rulemaking.
The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday (June 30) approved a $124.2 billion fiscal 2023 spending bill for HHS that increases funding for many key health programs.
CMS officials delayed a decision on Oregon’s request to exclude accelerated approval drugs from coverage on the same day that they asked Tennessee’s Medicaid officials to withdraw their closed drug formulary from TennCare’s Medicaid program, and CMS wants TennCare to revamp its block-grant-like program to ensure that Medicaid beneficiaries are protected.
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California’s new budget bill, signed on Thursday (June 30) by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), creates an Office of Health Care Affordability that will collect health care data from insurers, hospitals and physicians and use the information to push new payment models and set statewide spending targets for specific health care sectors.
HHS ordered 2.5 million doses of Bavarian Nordic’s vaccine for monkeypox, which is in addition to 500,000 doses of government-owned vaccines the company already is producing, and the order brings the total number of monkeypox vaccines on order to more than 4 million doses.
CMS on Wednesday (June 29) updated its nursing home guidance on arbitration agreements, surveyors’ use of payroll-based staffing information and infection prevention staff requirements, and the agency also encouraged nursing homes to reduce the number of patients in each room.
Five Supreme Court justices sided with HHS in a Medicare payment case on Friday (June 24), saying the department can exclude patients who have exhausted their Medicare Part A benefits from hospitals’ disproportionate share hospital payments.
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