Category: Legislation, Public Policy

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.

HHS investing $75 million in rural healthcare infrastructure

In a move designed to strengthen healthcare access and infrastructure in underserved areas, the Department of Health and Human Services has announced a $75 million investment in rural healthcare.
This initiative aims to expand healthcare services and i…

Texas sues over nursing home staffing rule

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued the Biden Administration to stop a new Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services final rule that requires nursing home staffing standards.

Republican states sue feds over HHS rule mandating DACA coverage

Fifteen Republican-led states are suing the Biden administration in an attempt to stop the government from opening up the Affordable Care Act to immigrants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, saying the recipients are not “leg…