by Jordana Choucair | Sep 8, 2022 | Access & Coverage
A federal judge ruled that an Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision requiring insurers and employers to offer plans that cover HIV-prevention drugs (PrEP) for free violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Judge Reed O’Connor said that the government failed to...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 8, 2022 | Health IT
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) released two data briefs examining Medicare telehealth usage during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. One report found that dually eligible, Hispanic, and urban Medicare...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 8, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said that food insecurity for households with children declined to its lowest rate in two decades last year. The department attributed the decline to government assistance programs that were designed to curb the COVID-19...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 8, 2022 | Mental Health
Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) revealed that almost 25 percent of all adults received mental health care treatment – taking prescription medication, receiving counseling or therapy from a mental health professional, or both –...
by Jordana Choucair | Sep 8, 2022 | Mental Health
A new report from the Health Care Cost Institute found that nearly a third of non-newborn pediatric hospital admissions from 2016 to 2020 were linked to mental health needs. Furthermore, the percent of admissions for mental health needs was substantially higher among...
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