Welcome back, Health Policy News readers! We hope you enjoyed the end of the summer. With fall conference season in full swing, this month’s edition features two updates from recent health policy conferences: the annual conference of the National Academy ...
As in past years, the Health Policy News team is releasing one Summer Edition that includes both special content dedicated to timely topics, such as the American Rescue Plan, as well as federal and state-level health policy and regulatory updates ...
This month’s edition features two articles that examine the Exchange-related guidance and future policy priorities recently announced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in the second final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2022 and Pharmacy Benefit ...
This month’s edition of Health Policy News features a recent PCG white paper on Syndromic Surveillance—a tool that has been central to helping state and local health departments track the spread of COVID-19 and target testing, contact tracing, and other ...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized the third part of the Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2022 (NBPP) this month. As the Summer Edition of ...
Nearly every panel at this year’s annual National Academy of State Health Policy (NASHP) conference—which took place from September 20-22—inevitably included some focus on the implications and impact of the ...
Along with approximately one-thousand state and federal Program Integrity professionals and experts, PCG’s Health team sponsored, attended and presented at the 2021 National Association of Medicaid Program Integrity (NAMPI) virtual ...
Exchange Guidance As expected and previewed in Part 2 of the final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2022 (NBPP), the Biden Administration issued its first independent Exchange rule ...
The summer months have seen a downturn in the spread of COVID-19 throughout the United States, with 56.1% of the total population having received at least one dose of a ...
Background The last year saw a significant increase in the use of alternative health care delivery methods (especially telemedicine, or telehealth1), as patients either avoided or were unable to access ...
This special, two-part piece is dedicated to Section 9817 of the American Rescue Plan, which provides funding for home and community-based services (HCBS) programs. In part one, view a guide ...
Introduction To date, the COVID-19 vaccination effort has been largely successful for the United States; however, vaccine hesitancy is a major factor preventing the nation from reaching herd immunity. The ...
As we noted in the recent recent Health Policy News overview of the second Final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP) for 2022, the process of finalizing Exchange guidance ...
On April 30th, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the second final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2022 and Pharmacy Benefit Manager Standards (NBPP), as well ...
