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November 14, 2018
The CMS wants to know how it can reduce HIPAA burdens that limit care coordination and has submitted a proposal for a request for information to the White House's Office of Management and Budget.The goal of the solicitation is to figure...
November 13, 2018 | Washington Post
Scott Gottlieb, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, signaled Tuesday that the agency plans action against flavored cigars - products that are especially popular among African American teens - as part of an aggressive effort...
November 13, 2018 | Politico
The Trump administration is continuing to weigh plans to discontinue more than $100 million in research projects that use fetal tissue, alarming scientists and some HHS officials while invigorating the president's supporters in the anti-...
November 12, 2018 | Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Move more, sit less and get kids active as young as age 3, say new federal guidelines that stress that any amount and any type of exercise helps health.
The advice is the first update since the government’s physical...
November 10, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
Nearly five years ago, leaders at Bellin Health in Green Bay, Wis., recognized that their employed primary-care physicians were burning out at least partyl due to too many hours spent on recordkeeping and not enough on direct patient care...
November 10, 2018 | The Hill
Medicaid expansion advocates are looking to capitalize off their midterm victories by potentially adding Kansas and Wisconsin to their list of recent wins.
Voters in three deep-red states voted to extend coverage to low-income adults, and...
November 10, 2018 | Washington Post
Leading heart experts released cholesterol management guidelines Saturday that call on doctors to tailor treatment to more personalized risk assessments of each patient and recommend the use of two new kinds of drugs for those at the...
November 10, 2018 | Wall Street Journal
Preschoolers who went through a four-month program focused on the body, physical movement and emotions were able to maintain healthier behaviors in the future, according to research conducted at 15 Head Start schools in Harlem.
Half of...
November 9, 2018 | NPR
Roger Chui first learned about the mass shooting that killed 12 people in a packed bar Wednesday night in Thousand Oaks, Calif., when he woke up the morning after and turned on his phone.
"And I was like 'Oh, that seems really soon after...
November 8, 2018 | Healthcare Informatics
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is revisiting mandatory bundled payment models, possibly for radiation oncology and cardiac care, according to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, which signals a strong...
November 8, 2018 | AJMC
A mandatory payment model is coming in oncology care, HHS Secretary Alex Azar said Thursday during an appearance at a value-based care summit.
Azar said that the administration would “revisit” mandatory models that it had previously...
November 8, 2018 | Healthcare Informatics
Ninety-three percent of MIPS (Merit-based Incentive Payment System)-eligible clinicians received a positive payment adjustment for their performance in 2017, and 95 percent overall avoided a negative payment adjustment, according to a CMS...
November 8, 2018 | Modern Healthcare
(Story updated at 3:57 p.m. ET)The CMS plans to unveil a mandatory Medicare payment model for cancer patients, and two new voluntary models for cardiac care in the coming weeks, said HHS Secretary Alex Azar. That means the Trump...
November 5, 2018
November 5, 2018
Dear Senator:
The Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) encourages the passage of the Comprehensive Care for Seniors Act of 2018 (S.3338) before the end of the 115th Congress. PCPCC believes that Programs...
November 5, 2018 | Wall Street Journal
Two years ago, Christa Bottomley’s healthy 5-year-old son caught a viral cold like the rest of the family. Everyone else recovered, but in his case the virus triggered a neurological condition.
The condition is called acute flaccid...
November 2, 2018
November 5, 2018
The Honorable Orrin G. Hatch The Honorable Ron Wyden
Chairman, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member, Senate Finance Committee
U.S. Senate...
November 1, 2018 | Healthline
For six years during her 20s, Tara Carter didn’t have a primary care doctor.
To her, it wasn’t an efficient use of her time.
First, she had to take time off work and sit in a doctor’s office, where she’d shell out her copay and answer a...
November 1, 2018 | Bloomberg
A group of large employers plans to use a new online prescription-savings tool as they confront high drug costs and try to steer patients to the most cost-effective medicines.
The Health Transformation Alliance, a coalition of more than...
November 1, 2018 | STAT
fter years of bickering, thousands of so-called safety-net hospitals and clinics won a significant battle over the Trump administration, which agreed to implement a rule that would penalize drug makers for overcharging for their medicines...
October 31, 2018 | The Milbank Memorial Fund
Representatives from state agencies in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont met earlier this month to hear and discuss reports from multi-state workgroups related to Certificate of Need reform and...
