The Senate Finance Committee put CMS on notice Thursday (Nov. 3) that the agency needs to step up its oversight of Medicare Advantage marketing practices or Congress might step in.
FDA has listed the liquid form of amoxicillin, an antibiotic often administered to children, on its drug shortage database, citing increased demand as the reason for the drug’s low supply while Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) cases and hospitalizations surge this fall.
The Biden administration should extend the public health emergency beyond its current expiration of Jan. 11 as states are not prepared to process the mass Medicaid renewals that will ensue once the declaration expires, nursing homes say in a letter to HHS on Wednesday (Nov. 2) in which they asked the administration to ensure long-term care populations are made a priority during the PHE unwinding.
