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27 Jul 2020, 11:16 am
Many of the children we serve are on Medicaid or some form of financial assistance. [read post]
24 Jul 2020, 3:00 am
It highlights how even in a pandemic, advocates trying to influence federal policy are working in support of candidates who may someday vote on it, even though the candidates are keeping their distance from corporate PAC money. [read post]
COVID-19 Daily Insurance Regulatory Updates To Keep You Informed During The Lockdown (July 22, 2020)
22 Jul 2020, 4:36 pm
Self-insured or publically funded health care benefit plans offered through employers are encouraged but not required to comply with the Bulletin. [read post]
17 Jul 2020, 11:07 am
Waiving patient co-pays or deductibles for medical or dental care and over-billing the insurance carrier or benefit plan (insurers often set the policy with regard to the waiver of co-pays through its provider contracting process; while, under Medicare, routinely waiving co-pays is prohibited and may only be waived due to “financial hardship”). [read post]
15 Jul 2020, 1:45 pm
In just over 100 days, Americans will vote not just for an individual candidate to occupy the Oval Office, but for a vision of the next era of the United States. [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 10:43 am
Attorney’s office. [read post]
23 Jun 2020, 12:56 pm
A final rule published by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) significantly scales back nondiscrimination regulations first released in 2016. [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 9:05 pm
The District Attorney’s Office previously instituted a policy that would have dismissed all such low-level arrests within six months, but it will now decline to prosecute these arrests altogether “in the interest of justice. [read post]
8 Jun 2020, 7:20 am
On June 2, 2020, the staffs of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Office of Policy Planning, Bureau of Economics, Bureau of Competition and Office of the General Counsel submitted a comment to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on its Interim Final Rule regarding policy and regulatory revisions in response to the COVID-19 public health emergency. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 1:07 pm
In response, many State Medicaid plans (especially Medicaid Advantage plans) have taken steps to make it easier for plan beneficiaries to obtain care by their primary care provider after normal business hours rather than be forced have to seek significantly more expensive hospital emergency room assistance during evenings, weekends and holidays, when their primary caregiver’s offices would normally be closed. [read post]
3 Jun 2020, 1:07 pm
In response, many State Medicaid plans (especially Medicaid Advantage plans) have taken steps to make it easier for plan beneficiaries to obtain care by their primary care provider after normal business hours rather than be forced have to seek significantly more expensive hospital emergency room assistance during evenings, weekends and holidays, when their primary caregiver’s offices would normally be closed. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 7:05 am
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced changes to Medicare enrollment periods to help seniors affected by the coronavirus pandemic. [read post]
28 May 2020, 9:05 pm
The White House and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that new Medicare prescription plans will be available beginning in 2021. [read post]
25 May 2020, 9:08 pm
At the same time, the Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. [read post]
17 May 2020, 9:08 pm
| A federal judge strikes a blow to two states’ Medicaid work requirements. [read post]
14 May 2020, 3:44 pm
Fraud in nursing homes that are Medicare/Medicaid certified and reimbursed not only hurts the residents but costs all taxpayers. [read post]
13 May 2020, 9:01 pm
Beyond not wanting to add millions to the already historic numbers or people who have lost their jobs—which would be disastrous not only for those state and local employees themselves but also for the private businesses that rely on those government workers to buy groceries, pay rent, and so on—we should not want these workers in particular to be told to stop doing their important work.Even so, states are already cutting back Medicaid payments (because that program is largely… [read post]
13 May 2020, 6:53 pm
A facility is required to have a plan for pneumococcal disease and influenza. [read post]
11 May 2020, 1:55 am
Any federal assistance plan must, moreover, be situated within the context of the provisions already implemented for state aid—inadequate, perhaps, but not insignificant. [read post]
7 May 2020, 9:05 pm
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced a new policy that calls for heightened standards for laboratories and commercial manufacturers to increase the development and availability of COVID-19 antibody tests. [read post]
