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The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission yesterday released its June report to Congress, which looks at Medicaid spending and financing at the request of congressional committees with interest in Medicaid. Topics include trends in Medicaid spending, state policy levers to control…
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has released a resource to help consumers understand their rights under the Mental Health Parity and Addictions Equity Act. The brochure reviews the law’s parity protections, how consumers can find out more about their health…
The House Energy and Commerce Committee June 15 voted 53-0 to approve the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, H.R. 2646, after several modifications were made to the bill as a result of bipartisan negotiations. The committee-approved bill scrapped earlier measures that would have…
The House Energy and Commerce Committee today voted 53-0 to approve the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act (H.R. 2646) after several modifications were made to the bill as a result of bipartisan negotiations.
The AHA today urged congressional negotiators to quickly pass a conference report that provides $1.1 billion in new funding to prevent local transmission of the Zika virus and develop a vaccine, rather than repurposing funds from other public health programs.
The AHA yesterday expressed support for the Creating and Restoring Equal Access to Equivalent Samples Act, which targets anticompetitive behaviors used to block and delay entry of generic drugs. The bipartisan legislation would allow a generic drug manufacturer facing one of these delay tactics to…
The AHA and seven other national associations today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to reject the National Labor Relations Board’s expanded joint employer test, outlining a range of adverse impacts in the franchising, construction, health care, retail and hospitality…
The California Department of Public Health and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles will serve as the last of 10 regional treatment centers for patients with Ebola and other severe, highly infectious diseases, the Department of Health and Human Services announced yesterday.
For the second time in two months, a federal court has denied a Federal Trade Commission request to stop a proposed merger, finding the agency was unlikely to succeed on the merits of its antitrust claims. The latest decision, in Illinois, paves the way for Advocate Health Care and NorthShore…
The American Medical Association yesterday adopted the first comprehensive update to its Code of Medical Ethics in more than 50 years, as well as separate ethical guidance for physicians who respond to individual health queries electronically or provide clinical services through…