Tuesday, April 5, 2022: D.C. News

Senate negotiators announced a deal on a $10 billion COVID-19 preparedness funding package. All $10 billion of the funding goes to agencies within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and is offset by unspent COVID-19 aid funds. The Biomedical Advanced...

Tuesday, April 5, 2022: Payers

A recent RAND Corporation study found that regional health care markets across the country have experienced significant divergence in commercial-to-Medicare price ratios between 2012 and 2019, causing insurers to pay vastly different rates to hospital systems....

Tuesday, April 5, 2022: Providers

Walmart Health announced it will open five new locations in Florida in the coming months – two clinics in Jacksonville, two in Orlando, and one in Tampa. Walmart’s clinics provide chronic disease management, urgent care, and mental health counseling, along with...

Monday, April 4, 2022: D.C. News

The House on Friday voted 220-204 to remove marijuana from the list of scheduled substances so that growing, selling, or possessing the drug would no longer carry criminal penalties. The Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act would also create a...