by Jordana Choucair | Apr 20, 2022 | Payers
Kaiser Permanente and Cigna announced a five-year agreement whereby Kaiser’s members seeking emergency care while traveling outside the eight states served by the health care system can visit providers contracted with Cigna. Kaiser members will be responsible for the...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 20, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Biden administration said it will only appeal a federal judge’s ruling that struck down its mask mandate for public transit if the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determines that the mask rule “remains necessary for public...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 20, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC launched a new center that aims to model and predict the path of infectious diseases like COVID-19, then relay that information to the public along with federal, state, and local governments. The Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics launched during a...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 20, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The CDC said that a new omicron subvariant is taking off in the United States and now makes up roughly 1 in 5 new COVID-19 cases. State health officials in New York estimate that the new variant, an offshoot of the dominant BA.2 version, is more transmissible than the...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 19, 2022 | Access & Coverage
The Supreme Court dismissed cases disputing the Trump administration’s approval of Medicaid work requirements in Arkansas and New Hampshire. The justices on Monday agreed the cases are now moot and sent them back to the trial court with instructions to wipe the...
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