The American Hospital Association has sent a letter to the Trump Administration urging it to consider exceptions to the proposed tariffs on medical devices and pharmaceutical products from China, Canada and Mexico.
Category: Legislation, Public Policy
Bill seeks to boost nursing workforce by supporting preceptors
Lawmakers, led by Virginia Congresswoman Jen Kiggans, have introduced the PRECEPT Nurses Act, a bipartisan bill that seeks to address the country’s nursing shortage by establishing a $2,000 tax credit for nurses who serve as a clinical preceptor to nur…
Trump bans gender-affirming care for people younger than 19
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that seeks to eliminate government support for transgender healthcare, saying the feds will not fund, sponsor or support gender-affirming surgery and will “rigorously” enforce laws that prohibit or l…
CFPB to remove medical debt from credit reports
Under a new rule finalized this week by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, medical bills will no longer be included on credit reports, a move the CFPB expects will remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about…
14 states to participate in maternal health model
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services kicked off its Transforming Mental Health (TMaH) Model at the beginning of the year, and this week announced the 14 states that will be participating in the 10-year model.
OCR settles with UCLA over disability access
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reached a Voluntary Resolution Agreement with the Regents of the University of California over its early intervention program over complaints that the program violated disab…
Planned Parenthood, other groups decry executive power in House bill
More than 130 national nonprofit organizations, including Planned Parenthood Federation of America, have voiced their opposition to a pending bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would effectively give President-elect Donald Trump’s administr…
AHA promotes healthcare navigators in letter to CMS
In a letter sent this week to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the American Hospital Association voiced its support for healthcare navigators, who are used by hospitals and health systems to help patients navigate through the financial a…
Lawsuit accuses Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of New York of harboring a ‘ghost network’
A new lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York accuses Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of New York of maintaining a “ghost network” of doctors, with patients pursuing pricey out-of-network care and experiencing care delays due to inaccurate pro…
New legislation seeks to make ACA premium tax credits permanent
The initiative arrives as the temporary expansion of tax credits is set to expire after 2025.
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