by Jordana Choucair | Apr 5, 2022 | D.C. News
President Biden is set to announce regulatory changes to Affordable Care Act (ACA) rules that could help hundreds of thousands more Americans gain coverage and more than a million spend less on premiums. The administration plans to change the definition of...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 5, 2022 | D.C. News
The Senate voted 53-47 to advance U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation. After the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 11-11, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called for a vote to break the deadlock and send her nomination to the floor....
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 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...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 5, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
A new report from the Commonwealth Fund found that American women of reproductive age score worse on just about every major health metric compared to their peers in 11 other wealthy countries. Among the developed nations, the U.S. had the highest maternal mortality...
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 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....
by Jordana Choucair | Apr 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...
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