Healthcare Law Blog

APRIL 6, 2022

The new state plan option allows state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (“CHIP”) agencies to provide 12 months of continuous postpartum coverage, regardless of any changes in circumstances, through a state plan amendment (“SPA”). This option is available for five years and ends on March 31, 2027. 31, 2022). [2]

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 15, 2020

More than four times as many Black women believe that it’s a bad time to be Black in America in 2020 versus 2011, we learn from The Undefeated Survey on Race and Health from Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). The public health pandemic has converged in 2020 with the negative impacts of financial stress and mental health tolls.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 24, 2022

These are shown in the first diagram from the report, breaking out factors that have exacerbated challenges on both the demand and supply side of the American health economy. Many of these were already in motion before the COVID-19 pandemic emerged; the public health crisis exacerbated several of them. In the U.S.,

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Government mandates were an impetus for change, starting with the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, enacted as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 to “promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology” (Office of Civil Rights (OCR), 2017).

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Health Populi

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Opioid-related deaths grew some 20% since 2011 in the U.S. health care versus the OECD peer nations. fall below the OECD average, and the proportion of people who self-report that they are in “good health” is the third highest in the OECD. and are impacting mortality rates in Canada, Estonia and Sweden, too. For the U.S.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 10, 2022

Entering the third year of the COVID-19 public health emergency, CMS seeks to clarify the period of time during which MAOs must comply with the special requirements at 42 CFR 422.100(m) to ensure access for enrollees to covered services throughout the disaster or emergency period.

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Healthcare Law Blog

JANUARY 26, 2023

The provisions also prohibit entities that receive federal funds from denying admission or discriminating against any applicant for training or study based on their reluctance or willingness to counsel, recommend, perform, or assist in certain health services or research activities because of their religious beliefs or moral convictions.

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