Community Benefit
The agency's end goal for Medicare Advantage is to match CMS' vision for its programs as a whole, with an emphasis on health equity.
The hope is that it will strengthen HHS' human trafficking prevention and intervention efforts with a focus on partnerships, equity and open data.
The COVID-19 vaccine would be the first available to help protect children under 5 years of age.
The vaccine is being marketed as Spikevax for the prevention of COVID-19 in individuals 18 years of age and older.
CMS credited the American Rescue Plan with lowering average monthly premiums for HealthCare.gov consumers by 23%.
Some of the policies in the Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters may limit innovation and competition, AHIP said.
The task force’s primary goal is to protect and bolster sexual and reproductive health, including the right to safe and legal abortion care.
This adds to the more than 800 federal emergency personnel dispatched to 24 states, tribes and territories since Thanksgiving.
This continues to outpace previous years' enrollment, including a 21% increase in plan selections through December 15, 2021.
There are no test-out options and no exemptions, apart from medical exemptions, a move geared to protecting the health of a stretched-thin workforce.