An executive order signed by President Trump will lighten rules on association health plans (AHPs), which could allow groups of businesses to provide lower cost insurance without essential health...
HHS has withdrawn a proposal for a rule that would have required controlling health plans (CHPs) to submit additional information and documentation demonstrating compliance with HHS operating rules,...
HHS and CMS announced that they will allocate $10 million to support the Affordable Care Act Navigator program, which helps health insurance consumers find coverage solutions during the Open Enrollment...
Payers still debating how uncertainty over cost-sharing reduction (CSR) subsidies will alter their insurance prices now have more time to submit 2018 health plan rates, CMS announced in a letter to...
Florida received CMS approval to operate a state capitated Medicaid program and a low-income pool (LIP) to improve care for uninsured individuals, the federal agency announced.
The state submitted a...
The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the largest ever healthcare enforcement action in the history of the federal agency took place when the Medicare Fraud Strike Force (MFSF) charged 412...
Reducing prescription drug prices for payers requires market-based solutions that increase competition and deregulate federal drug policies, the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association (PCMA) wrote...
A statement released by HHS and CMS’s Medicare Board of Trustees (MBT) indicates that the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is likely to be depleted by the year 2029.
The report suggests...
Alaska will be able to move ahead with its plans to implement a state reinsurance program under a 1332 State Innovation Waiver, HHS confirmed this week.
The Alaska Reinsurance Program...
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) will submit a section 1115 Medicaid waiver for the 2018 enrollment period that aims to add drug testing, healthy behavior incentives, and premium...
Kentucky’s Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield Kentucky Medicaid has received an award from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) for its Medicaid managed care plan.
The award...
Due to problems with oversight and contract issues, the Medicare Fee-for-Service Program wrongly made payments of $41.1 billion in 2016, according to a GAO report.
Following an HHS report that...
HHS created a new online resource that highlights the regulatory and administrative actions the federal department has taken for an Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal.
HHS believes that these...
As one of her first actions as CMS Administrator, Seema Verma collaborated with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price to detail how the federal government plans to...
HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, released a statement that decried several findings from the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) score of the American Health Care Act (AHCA).
The CBO estimates that...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently encouraged states to apply for State Innovation Waivers as a way to stabilize the health insurance exchanges and boost consumer access health...
The Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services Secretary (HHS) penned a letter to the two House Republicans behind the American Health Care Act praising the new legislation that would...
On February 1, House Representative Tom Price, R-Ga., was officially nominated as the Secretary for the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), according to the US News & World Report. The...
Diabetes is a major public health concern for the medical industry with 29.1 million Americans or 9.3 percent of the population diagnosed with the disease in 2012, according to the American Journal of...
At the end of September, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) announced in a briefing that the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) does not have the authority to transfer funds from...
