Policy and Legislation

<p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General recommends Medicare develop its own source for race and ethnicity data collection in the Medicare population, says Ann Maxwell, HHS-OIG deputy inspector general for evaluations.</p> <p>  </p>

The associations' primary recommendation is to retire CMS' Severe Sepsis/Septic Shock Management Bundle.

Organizations say the proposals are legally and operationally flawed and could hinder access rather than facilitate it.

HHS wants to ensure affordable access for beneficiaries in public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, and for the uninsured.

The State of California identified several violations in the plan's provision of behavioral healthcare services to enrollees.

<p><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Most AI adoption requires healthcare organizations to have a certain level of digital maturity, says Professor David Lowe, clinical director, Health Innovation with the Scottish government.</span></span></p>

Numerous telehealth flexibilities allowed under the pandemic will need to be decided on a more permanent basis, ATA says.

HHS said the revisions make "necessary improvements" to meet the demands of changes in biomedical and behavioral research.

Insurers are now precluded by federal regulation from implementing co-pay accumulators for drugs that lack generic equivalents.

States must provide 12 months of continuous coverage for children under the age of 19, CMS says.