Thursday, September 29, 2022: Payers

Results from The Commonwealth Fund’s biennial Health Insurance Survey show that even though a record number of Americans have health insurance, 43 percent of working-age adults were inadequately insured in 2022. In the survey, based on responses from more than 6,000...

Thursday, September 29, 2022: Providers

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a new report revealing that 27 percent of Head Start grant recipients had incidents of child abuse, lack of supervision, or unauthorized releases to adults. Nearly 20...

Wednesday, September 28, 2022: Health IT

A new study published in JAMA Open Network found that the quality between telehealth visits and in-person visits for primary care is comparable. The study examined 16 Health Care Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures across five domains of primary...

Wednesday, September 28, 2022: Life Sciences

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it will now review only a small number of emergency use authorization (EUA) requests for COVID-19 tests. Companies that request EUAs for their tests will have to demonstrate the tests are likely to have a significant...