by Jordana Choucair | Dec 2, 2021 | D.C. News
The White House announced that President Biden today will outline a plan to combat COVID-19 this winter. The plan is expected to include allowing private health insurance to cover rapid, at-home test kits, extending mask mandates on public transportation through March...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 2, 2021 | Access & Coverage
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority signaled that it will uphold a Mississippi law banning abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The state’s 2018 law contains abortion restrictions contrary to precedent set in the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. Chief...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 2, 2021 | Transition to Value
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation withdrew a program focused on care coordination for seriously ill Medicare patients without primary care doctors. The program, which was intended to be part of the Primary Care First model, was nixed after a review found...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2021 | Providers
Kaufman Hall’s latest National Hospital Flash Report shows that U.S. hospitals and health systems margins declined for the second straight month in October. According to the report, median change in operating margin was down 12.1 percent from September to October, and...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2021 | Providers
A federal court in Louisiana blocked the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for health care workers across the country, except in the 10 states where the rule has already been paused. The Louisiana court considered limiting the injunction to the 14...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 1, 2021 | Payers
A new poll from Willis Towers Watson shows that nearly 85 percent of employers plan to offer COVID-19 testing or test employees regularly as they return to the workplace, 80 percent of which say they’ll do so weekly. More than half (57 percent) of employers...
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