Thursday, September 29, 2022: Payers

Results from The Commonwealth Fund’s biennial Health Insurance Survey show that even though a record number of Americans have health insurance, 43 percent of working-age adults were inadequately insured in 2022. In the survey, based on responses from more than 6,000...

Thursday, September 29, 2022: Providers

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) published a new report revealing that 27 percent of Head Start grant recipients had incidents of child abuse, lack of supervision, or unauthorized releases to adults. Nearly 20...
Get to Know…Tym Rourke

Get to Know…Tym Rourke

Tym Rourke at Kids Count Event with U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen Tym Rourke has been engaged in prevention efforts for almost his entire life. As a high school student, he joined Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) and later served as the president. After...

Wednesday, September 28, 2022: Health IT

A new study published in JAMA Open Network found that the quality between telehealth visits and in-person visits for primary care is comparable. The study examined 16 Health Care Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures across five domains of primary...

Wednesday, September 28, 2022: Life Sciences

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it will now review only a small number of emergency use authorization (EUA) requests for COVID-19 tests. Companies that request EUAs for their tests will have to demonstrate the tests are likely to have a significant...