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NASHP Conference Features COVID-19 Updates and Forward-Looking Policy Discussions
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 ...
NAMPI 2021: Advancing Medicaid Program Integrity in the Current Environment
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 ...
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 ...
Following the Supreme Court’s Decision upholding the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services issues Proposed Regulations on the Exchange and the No Surprises Act
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 ...
Summer 2021 COVID-19 Updates
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 ...
Post-Pandemic Telehealth Utilization
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 ...
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 ...
Analyzing the Effects of Public Health Messaging on Vaccine Hesitancy
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 ...
CMS Foreshadows Policy Areas for Future Rulemaking
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 ...