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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a proposed rule revising requirements for value-based purchasing agreements between states and manufacturers for drugs covered by Medicaid.
Black COVID-19 patients were more likely to be hospitalized than white patients in a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study that looked at cases in metropolitan Atlanta.
The Internal Revenue Service outlined certain telehealth spending flexibilities under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which allows high-deductible health plans with health savings accounts to cover telehealth services before a patient reaches their deductible amount.
The Food and Drug Administration announced a public-private partnership to advance COVID-19 diagnostics.
Eligible hospitals that wish to apply to participate in the Medicare Direct Contracting Model but have not yet submitted a nonbinding letter of intent may do so before they apply for the first performance year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.
The Food and Drug Administration issued updated templates for laboratories and manufacturers requesting emergency use authorization for molecular diagnostic tests that screen asymptomatic individuals for SARS-CoV-2 or use pooled samples.
COVID-19 has challenged the health care field to retool and reinvent. On this podcast, Priya Bathija, AHA vice president of strategic initiatives, talks with two senior leaders at Atlantic Health System in New Jersey about COVID-19’s impact on telehealth and integrated care.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee held a hearing on telehealth lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Small Business Administration released a revised loan forgiveness application for the Paycheck Protection Program, which implements provisions of the recently enacted PPP Flexibility Act.
The Federal Communications Commission is investigating a T-Mobile network outage that impacted customers across the United States, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said.