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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week released two guidance documents to help states and territories maintain Medicaid and Children鈥檚 Health Insurance Program coverage for eligible individuals. Access the documents here and here.
Twenty-five organizations, including the AHA, today urged Congress to immediately extend the hold on payment cuts and the private payer data reporting period under the Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule due to the continued COVID-19 public health emergency.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week released a FAQ clarifying when the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments apply to over-the-counter home tests, including COVID-19 tests.
The Department of Health and Human Services鈥 Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) last week advised biotechnology companies specifically and the health care and public health sector generally to review a new report on a malware threat aggressively spreading through the鈥
The AHA and seven other national organizations representing hospitals and health systems today urged congressional leaders to act before yearend to extend the moratorium on Medicare sequester cuts and prevent the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go sequester from taking effect.
The Coalition to Protect America鈥檚 Health Care, whose members include the AHA, today launched a television ad and digital campaign urging Congress to stop the forthcoming Medicare sequester cuts and statutory PAYGO sequester.
President Biden today called the new Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus 鈥渁 cause for concern, not a cause for panic,鈥 urging all eligible Americans to get vaccinated and all eligible adults to get a booster if they haven鈥檛 already.
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri today granted a preliminary injunction preventing the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services from enforcing its vaccine mandate rule in Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota鈥
Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., Lisa Blunt-Rochester, D-Del., and Richard Hudson, R-N.C., last week introduced in the House the Leveraging Integrated Networks in Communities to Address Social Needs Act (H.R. 6072), AHA-supported legislation that would provide funding for states鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released 11 documents related to the agency鈥檚 regulations implementing the No Surprises Act.