Tuesday, June 28, 2022: Providers

HHS issued a request for comment on its plan to strengthen primary care across the country. The department is striving to offer multiple points of public participation as it works toward developing and releasing an action plan by the end of 2022. The Office of the...

Monday, June 27, 2022: D.C. News

Protests erupted nationwide this weekend after the Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion. More than a dozen states had “trigger” laws in place before the Friday ruling, designed to ban or seriously...

Monday, June 27, 2022: Life Sciences

Pfizer and BioNTech announced Saturday that updated versions of their COVID-19 vaccines deliver a “substantially higher immune response” against the omicron strain. Monovalent targets omicron alone while bivalent combines monovalent with the companies’ original...

Monday, June 27, 2022: Life Sciences

A federal court ruled late Friday that Juul’s vaping products can stay on the market while the company prepares its full legal challenge to last week’s FDA ban. The company sued the FDA on Thursday after the agency ordered it to shut down all U.S. sales. Juul is also...

Monday, June 27, 2022: Providers

The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that HHS lawfully calculated disproportionate share (DSH) payments to safety-net hospitals. In a 5-4 decision, the majority concluded that Medicare’s system of paying safety-net providers is lawful, which upholds a 2004 regulation...