by Jordana Choucair | Jun 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...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 28, 2022 | Transition to Value
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that a new payment model targeted at improving Medicare cancer care will begin in mid-2023. The “Enhancing Oncology Model” will be a voluntary program that builds off the Oncology Care Model, which will...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 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...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 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...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 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...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 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...
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