Category: Healthcare Finance News

ACAP wants Supreme Court to rule for full coverage of cost-sharing reduction payments

This week, the Association for Community Affiliated Plans filed an amicus brief backing Maine Community Health Options and Community Health Choice in their request to the Supreme Court to review a lower court’s decision on cost-sharing reduction payments.

CDC teams with NIH to gauge efficacy of at-home COVID-19 testing

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is teaming with the National Institutes of Health on an initiative to determine if the widespread use of at-home COVID-19 tests is effective at stemming transmission of the virus.

HIMSSCast: Leveraging care networks toward humanizing healthcare

In her new book “Humanizing Healthcare,” Dr. Summer Knight takes a survey of the healthcare landscape and explores how technology and culture change.

HHS announces reduced costs, expanded access for marketplace health coverage under ARP

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced on Thursday that additional savings and lower healthcare costs are available for consumers on HealthCare.gov due to the American Rescue Plan, which has increased tax credit…

Provider groups applaud President Biden’s American Jobs Plan

 The plan would spend $400 billion toward expanding access to home- or community-based care and improving the wages of caregivers.
 

How COVID-19 has transformed public policy and population health efforts

The COVID-19 global pandemic has highlighted disparities in our healthcare system and is informing public policy decisions on everything from how the newly unemployed can gain access to health insurance to mental health needs – including those of physi…

AHA wants HHS to issue waivers to 340B hospitals

The American Hospital Association is asking Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to ensure that hospitals participating in the 340B drug pricing program continue to have access to the program despite changes in their payer mix as a result…

FCC moves ahead with relaunch of COVID-19 telehealth program

This week, the Federal Communications Commission voted to move forward with Round 2 of the COVID-19 Telehealth Program, a $249.95 million federal initiative that builds on the $200 million program established as part of the CARES Act.

Vaccines and prior COVID-19 infection offer protection against variants

The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned at least three known variants of the coronavirus that cause the disease, but a new

Pfizer releases new vaccine efficacies, while J&J vaccine shipments get delayed

Also: Johnson & Johnson vaccine shipments have been delayed after cross-contamination occurred in a Baltimore production facility.