Health Policy News March We start this month’s edition looking forward to Black Maternal Health Week – April 11th-17th. Our first article features this important health topic. We hope you will join us for PCG’s joint webinar with the Perinatal ...
Health Policy News February In this month’s edition of Health Policy News, we continue our Focus on Caregiving Series with an overview of the federal Credit for Caring Act introduced in February, along with similar state–level initiatives to provide financial ...
Health Policy News January In this month’s edition of Health Policy News, we continue our Focus on Caregiving Series with a deep dive by our subject matter experts on the role of family members in the “caregiving workforce”. We look ...
Happy Holidays! As is customary for Health Policy News, our December 2023 edition is a retrospective of this past year, with a quick preview of topics and developments the Health Policy News team will be following in the new year. ...
This month, Tennessee continued its pursuit of a Medicaid block grant, unveiling its draft Medicaid waiver amendment application on September 17th. Underpinning Tennessee’s months-long exploration of this model is the ...
Medicaid agencies must assure the health and safety of their Home & Community-Based Services (HCBS) waiver program recipients by managing the reporting, investigation, and prevention of incidents. Failure to do ...
Claiming administrative costs to Medicaid waivers has become a targeted area of review by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). A number ...
The Health Policy News team continued our summer conference travels and spent time in Chicago from August 21st-23rd at the 32nd Annual #NASHPCONF19. While we heard from many of our ...
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 ...
Introduction As in past years, Health Policy News is marking the summer season with the publication of one special edition. For summer 2019, we have prepared a roundup of pending ...
Unlike many topics under discussion in Congress this year, the issue of health care costs is a priority across party lines. With bills pending in both the U.S. House of ...
Notable among the bills passed by the U.S. House of Representatives in recent months are two bills aimed at shoring up the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Below, we explore the ...
On June 12, 2019, the U.S. House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee conducted its initial hearings on H.R. 1384, the Medicare for All Act of 2019. Introduced by U.S. ...
As we reported in May, funding for a first-of-its-kind Produce Prescription (“Produce RX”) pilot program was included in the 2018 Farm Bill. Produce RX programs seek to connect physicians and patients ...
