Community Benefit
The rule has been criticized for causing immigrants to disenroll from public programs like Medicaid.
One of the vaccines being distributed by COVAX, from AstraZeneca, has 76% efficacy after one dose and 82% efficacy after two.
The efforts will be enabled by new $350,000 Racial Equity and Justice Grants that support minority-led not-for-profit organizations.
CMS has signaled that it may stop reimbursing for audio-only visits after the public health emergency.
Members living with multiple chronic conditions will have an opportunity to be treated safely at home and thereby avoid hospital visits.
Called FIRE Wire, the solution will allow physicians and their teams to share messages, referrals and patient data with community-based organizations.
The memorandum also directs federal agencies to review policies that undermine the ACA, Medicaid or the Health Insurance Marketplace.
Essential workers have the highest rates of adverse mental health outcomes compared to all other employment groups surveyed by the CDC.
To obtain significant improvements, a very large fraction of a town's population should be vaccinated.
There's a real financial incentive for healthcare and business organizations to team up on health equity, the report said.