Category: White Papers

The End of the Public Health Emergency & Effect on Health Insurance Coverage
The End of the Public Health Emergency and the Effect on Health Insurance Coverage In the coming months it is anticipated that the end of the COVID -19 Public ...

COVID-19 Lessons Learned Inform Retrospectives of State Responses and Pandemic Preparedness
By Rawson Pino and Margot Thistle As COVID-19 became a national pandemic in the United States in early 2020, states across the country scrambled to respond with public health strategies ...

2021 White Paper – “Looking Toward the Future: Health Policy Priorities and Actions in the First Year of the Biden Administration”
Health Policy News is pleased to share our annual fall white paper, “Looking Toward the Future: Health Policy Priorities and Actions in the First Year of the Biden Administration,” in ...

Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) and Syndromic Surveillance
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to capture and securely share patient information via health information exchanges (HIE). HIEs across the nation have been critically important in helping healthcare ...

Health Policy News – Special Edition (October 2020)
Health Policy News Fall White Paper Released Today, PCG’s Health Policy News team released our annual fall white paper. This year’s topic is “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ...

Health Policy News Fall White Paper Released and Upcoming Webinar
Today, PCG’s Health Policy News team released our annual fall white paper. This year’s topic is “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Ten Years Later: States Take the Lead.” ...

Health Policy News Team Announces Fall Webinar & White Paper Release
On October 29th at 11am EST, the Health Policy News team will host a webinar to discuss the release of our annual fall white paper. This year’s topic is “States ...

Innovative Approaches to Accountable Care
In 2018, it was estimated that 10 percent of the population was receiving care under an Accountable Care Organization (ACO) approach to health care delivery. Recent enrollment data from 2019 ...

National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) Conference Brings Policy Makers from Across the Country Together
Members of the Health Policy News (HPN) team attended the NCSL Legislative Summit in Nashville from August 5-8, 2019, learning and sharing our work with legislators and staff from across ...

Movement on drug cost containment at both the state and federal level
Health Policy News has devoted significant attention to State and Federal efforts to contain drug costs, including recently issuing a report and legislative tracking tool entitled “ Rising Prescription Drug ...