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The Food and Drug Administration Friday authorized for emergency use a molecular test to detect mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) at the point of care in lesion swab specimens from individuals whose health care provider suspects they have the virus. 
Deceptively branded as an effort to save the 340B program, a legislative campaign by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, National Association of Community Health Centers and other groups to remove many hospitals, eligible drugs and patients from the 340B program “would only…
The latest annual survey of state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program directors by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Georgetown University Center for Children and Families looks at state approaches to renewing Medicaid and CHIP enrollments over the past year and once the COVID-19 public…
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration yesterday awarded 15 states $1 million grants to plan and apply to participate in Medicaid’s Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic demonstration.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this week released for comment initial guidance implementing a program for Medicare to negotiate prices with drug makers for certain high-cost, single-source drug and biological products beginning in 2026 under the Inflation Reduction Act.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra this week amended the February 2020 COVID-19 emergency use authorization declaration so that the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 diagnostics, personal protective equipment, other medical devices, and drug…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will make whole health care providers impacted by lowered coinsurance on 27 Medicare Part B prescription drugs. The reduced coinsurance rates, which are required by the Inflation Reduction Act, take effect April 1 and will remain in effect through…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today instructed certified independent dispute resolution entities to resume making payment determinations for disputes involving items or services furnished on or after Oct. 25, 2022.
Age-Friendly Health Systems, an initiative of the John A. Hartford Foundation and Institute for Healthcare Improvement in partnership with the AHA and Catholic Health Association of the United States, has recognized over 3,000 care locations as “age friendly” for reliably implementing four evidence…
New AHA case studies on the importance of integrating physical and behavioral health feature three hospitals leading the way forward.