The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) faces continued disruption to its workforce and programs as legal challenges, a union settlement and a new administration effort to reclaim federal funding reshapes how the department...
The National Rural Health Association is rolling out a new in district advocacy toolkit as Congress heads into its spring recess, aimed at helping rural providers and stakeholders engage lawmakers in their home districts.
The Senate recess runs March 28 through April 12, while the House recess extends through April 13.
The toolkit...
The joint commitment among the five founding members aims to leverage learned lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic response into actionable strategies that will strengthen the partnership between healthcare and public health systems.
In March 2023, the Common Health Coalition (CHC) was formed by AHIP, the American Medical Association...National Resources
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a new Surgeon General’s Advisory, calling for urgent and coordinated response to the nation’s youth mental health crisis.
The advisory follows a recent declaration by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and the Children’s...National Resources
The third in a series of CMS created toolkits, the report features innovative strategies Medicare ACOs use to help primary care and specialty providers in the ambulatory setting improve healthcare quality and patient outcomes.
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) designs the reports for public consumption to help...National Resources
And with a growth rate of 4% the announcement is good news for actuaries, but behind the scenes plans will still grapple with CMS' new risk scoring formula that now leans heavily on encounter data.
YOY expected impact of the updated methodologies on plan payments relative to last year.
The federal agency is also continuing to...National Resources
The Pennant Group, a separately traded company, but a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ensign, would pick up Ensign’s home health and hospice operations, most of its senior living operations, plus mobile diagnostic and clinical laboratory operations.
Once the deal is complete The Ensign Group, Inc., will limit itself to transitional and...National Resources
The Human Rights Watch report makes the claim that the overmedication of antipsychotics in nursing homes has become an epidemic.
The report quotes Walter L., a Texas nursing home patient who was given antipsychotics. “Too many times I’m given too many pills…, I can’t even talk. I have a thick tongue when they do that. I ask...National Resources
Premiums could fall for some, individual markets destabilized in some states
The House passed the AHCA without benefit of the CBO scoring. The revised Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act will leave 23 million more people uninsured over the next decade than if the ACA were to remain in place. Read about...
