The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced an extension of unwinding flexibilities for states to protect coverage for people and families enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
The U.S. Department of Justice has announced the formation of the Antitrust Division’s Task Force on Health Care Monopolies and Collusion (HCMC), which will guide the division’s enforcement strategy and policy approach in healthcare. This will include facilitating policy advocacy, investigations and, where warranted, civil and criminal enforcement in healthcare markets.
Phishing, compromised accounts through remote access and unpatched vulnerabilities are common attack vectors, says Carolyn Metnick, partner at Sheppard Mullin who is a member of their Healthcare and Privacy & Cybersecurity teams.
Digital health startup Ovatient, which was formed in 2022 through a partnership between Cleveland-based MetroHealth System and South Carolina-based MUSC Health, has launched a new virtual care platform aimed at MetroHealth patients.
An estimated 80 million people in this country suffer from some type of allergy and up to 40% of Americans have environmental allergies caused by substances such as hay fever, pet dander and dust mites. These common conditions can often be treated by over-the-counter remedies, prescription drugs and shots to build up resistance.
The House Ways and Means Committee has passed telehealth legislation to preserve flexibilities for virtual care introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is proposing a new mandatory model geared at improving access for kidney transplant patients, with the goal of helping hospitals increase the quality of the transplants they perform. The Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) Model aims to increase access to kidney transplants for all people living with end-stage […]
Actress, writer and producer Kellee Stewart says one of the reasons she became a fertility advocate and associated with Evite and Progeny was that she realized that reproductive health was not part of sex education at school.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, along with the Catholic Medical Association, is suing the Department of Health and Human Services over a new rule under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act meant to protect against discrimination against LGBTQI+ patients in healthcare.
Steward Health Care will sell all of its 31 hospitals, according to documents submitted to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Houston on Tuesday.