01.25.23
On January 4, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services issued a new State Medicaid Director letter on how states can make expanded use of ILOS authority, including to address social drivers of health.
01.19.23
On January 5, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued guidance for State Health Officials clarifying that Medicaid and CHIP coverage and payment of interprofessional consultations (commonly and hereafter referred to as “eConsults”) is permissible, even when the ...
01.18.23
In 2020, health care spending in the United States increased by nearly 10% to reach $4.1 trillion, or 20% of the U.S. economy.
01.17.23
On January 3, the Biden Administration took additional steps to ease access to FDA-approved abortion medication in the United States, further wading into the legal and political chaos that has sprung up in the wake of the decision by the Supreme Court in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s ...
01.12.23
In 2021, drug-related overdose deaths topped 107,000.
01.09.23
On December 19, 2022, the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services issued an advisory opinion blessing the use of hospital-employed nurse practitioners to perform certain functions typically performed by the patient’s attending physician.
01.04.23
Designed to better coordinate care between Medicare and Medicaid programs, a D-SNP enrolls only dual-eligible individuals.
01.03.23
On November 28, the Department of Health and Human Services released a proposed rule that seeks to better align the Confidentiality of Substance Use Disorder Patient Records regulations under 42 CFR part 2 with the regulatory requirements under the Health Insurance Portability and ...
12.19.22
Health and well-being require far more than medical care.
12.15.22
The recent waiver approvals in Arizona, Arkansas, Massachusetts and Oregon promise, in varying degrees, to transform coverage and care while signaling to other states the types of waiver policies CMS is prepared to allow.