
Insights from the 2023 Annual Conference of the National Academy for State Health Policy
Insights from the 2023 Annual Conference of the National Academy for State Health Policy This year’s National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) conference took place in August. This was ...

2024 Final Marketplace Rules & Guidance for Health Issuers
On April 17,2023, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the final Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2024 (NBPP), and additionally on May 1, 2023, the ...

Drug Affordability and Accessibility Report Released by CMS Innovation Center in response to Executive Order 14807- Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans
Drug Affordability and Accessibility Report Released by CMS Innovation Center in response to Executive Order 14807- Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans In October of 2022, the Biden Administration released ...

Unwinding the Continuous Enrollment Requirement
Unwinding the Continuous Enrollment Requirement Although the Public Health Emergency (PHE) end has not been formally announced, the administration has taken steps to start the process of unwinding the ...

2024 Draft Marketplace Rules
Draft Marketplace Rules & Guidance for Health Issuers On December 12, 2022, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the Proposed Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2024 ...

Health Policy News Predictions for 2023
Predictions for 2023 As is customary for Health Policy News, as the year comes to an end, we are spending time thinking forward about topics and developments the Health Policy ...

Health Policy News Teams Host Webinar on the End of the Public Health Emergency
On November 17th, the HPN team hosted a webinar as a companion piece to an October 2022 white paper – The End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency & the ...

Health Policy News Conference Roundup
Highlights from the 2022 National Association of Medicaid Program Integrity Conference; Advancing Medicaid Program Integrity – Chris Richter Several members of Public Consulting Group’s (PCGs) Health Payer Services team recently ...

American Rescue Plan Act Funding Progress Updates
Last summer, Health Policy News provided coverage of early planning at the state level to implement Section 9817 of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) related to Home ...
PCG Hosts Webinar and Releases a New Tool to Assist States in Providing Comment on the Impact of Proposed Rules to Enhance Medicaid Access/Quality
In April 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released two notices of proposed rulemaking aimed at transforming the delivery of, access to, and payment for Medicaid programs: Ensuring Access ...
By Margot Jones on June 30, 2023