The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has approved Medicaid Section 1115 demonstration initiatives in Massachusetts and Oregon, both of which aim to test improvements in coverage, access and quality.
Retail giant Walmart, which is increasingly muscling its way into the healthcare space, is partnering with Kindbody as the fertility provider for its new Center of Excellence (COE). Kindbody is a family-building benefits provider for employers.
Beyond a social issue, health equity is a financial one, according to veteran healthcare executive Shreesh Tiwari.
Ten hospital and physician groups have asked Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to extend the October 6 information blocking deadline for one year.
The Department of Health and Human Services must immediately stop the 30% drug reimbursement cuts to hospitals in the 340B program, a federal judge has ruled.
Major payer group the ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), representing large employer plan sponsors, wrote a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives this week decrying legislation that would impose fines on insurers who don’t follow mental health pay parity requirements.
Improving health equity requires changes to risk adjustment, physicians said Tuesday. Current risk adjustment underestimates the total cost of care of patients who have comorbidities and socially complex issues, said physicians who spoke Tuesday during a Primary Care Collaborative session on achieving equitable primary care services.
An audit of inappropriate Medicare payments to acute care hospitals has found that such improper payments are on the decline: While hospitals logged $39.3 million in improper Medicare Part B payments from 2016 to 2021, that’s a decrease from the $51.6 million in alleged overpayments that occurred between 2013 and 2016.
A major pharmacy group has sent a letter to the White House urging the administration to retain COVID-19 emergency provisions under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act for a couple more years.