Tag: Office of Management and Budget
Vaccine Mandates: Steps and Tools to Assist with Compliance
Over the last few weeks, several COVID-19 vaccine-related policy proposals affecting various employee types and employer configurations were released at the federal level. These proposals would require some employers to ...
Update on Vermont’s Efforts to Implement Wholesale Importation of Prescription Drugs from Canada
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many state policy efforts over the last year, with state agencies across the U.S. re-deploying their staff towards tracing and vaccination work. This has undoubtedly contributed to less momentum on drug importation efforts at the state ...
Health Policy News – May 2020
The much-anticipated final Payment Notice and Letter to Issuers in the Federally-facilitated Marketplaces was released early this month, with states’ concerns about the impact of COVID-19 evident in many of ...
Guidance for States on How to Properly Document Federal Funding During COVID-19 Response and Recovery
On March 19, 2020, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released M-20-17, Administrative Relief for Recipients and Applicants of Federal Financial Assistance Directly Impacted by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) ...
Health Policy News – September 2019
Introduction Since publishing our summer edition, the Health Policy News team has attended various conferences. We were thrilled to see many subscribers in person at the National Conference of State ...
Tennessee Releases Its Block Grant Plan
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 ...
Health Policy News – January 2019
Introduction As readers are likely aware, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) long-awaited annual Exchange guidance was released on January 17, 2019, and, as in past years, PCG ...
A Reminder from PCG’s Cost Allocation Team to Reference the Correct Federal Guidance in Cost Allocation Plans and Indirect Cost Rates
December marked five years since the Federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) consolidated eight prior OMB Circulars into a single source of federal guidance, and four years since that ...