A federal lawsuit in Texas is challenging a core tenet of the Affordable Care Act that requires insurers to cover preventive health services.
Back in September, a district court judge ruled that the way the federal task force charged with determining which services were covered is unconstitutional and that the requirement for...
Nearly 200,000 Arizonans have now received the bivalent COVID-19 booster shots that are designed to specifically counter the Omicron subvariants of the virus, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized that the shots be extended to children as young as five years old.
In Arizona, cases are down for the first week...
Last Friday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published the Roadmap for Behavioral Health Integration, which aims to boost pay parity and support for mental health care and substance abuse prevention services.
The HHS Roadmap was developed by the HHS Behavioral Health Coordinating Council and incorporated...
The federal government is curious about states' use of value-based payment (VBP) in nursing facility reimbursement through Medicaid programs. In August, the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) published an issue brief on its investigation into which states use VBP and how well the systems work.
On the federal level,...National News
On February 1, 2022, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) Office of Health Policy filed an issue brief on a national survey that found disparities in use of telehealth services in 2021.
The survey polled 808,368 American adults and found that nearly a quarter of...National News
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced that the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has updated preventative care and screening guidelines for women, infants, children, and adolescents, expanding and updating coverage for a variety of preventative care services.
The new services...
