Health Policy News – Summer 2021
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 ...
ARP Includes Significant Funding Opportunity for States to Invest in HCBS
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 ...
Health Policy News – May 2021
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 ...
CMS Issues Further Exchange Guidance: Second Final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2022 and 2022 Final Letter to Issuers in the Federally-facilliated Exchanges
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 ...
Health Policy News – April 2021
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 ...
Health Policy News – March 2021
This month, we provide updates on topics covered in recent editions, including an update on the latest health policy developments relative to the COVID-19 public health emergency, digital healthcare access ...
Health Policy News – February 2021
In the month since the presidential inauguration, the Biden administration has been busy putting its mark on U.S. health policy. A new Marketplace Open Enrollment Period has begun, and the ...
States Should Start Planning Now for Adapting Their Medicaid Programs Post-COVID-19
By Peter Cheesman and Lisa Kaplan Howe Update: For more information about considerations for states regarding redeterminations of Medicaid following the end public health emergency, click here. While the COVID-19 ...
Health Policy News – January 2021
Even though we are only one month into 2021, an incredible amount of health policy developments have transpired since our last edition! We have several updates in this first edition ...
Reflections on 2020 and Predictions for 2021
Continued Responses to COVID-19 State and Federal Responses to COVID-19 in 2020 and Expectations for 2021 At the start of 2020, COVID-19 was a peripheral thought for most people in ...