by Jordana Choucair | Mar 11, 2022 | D.C. News
The White House said it may need to pare back its COVID-19 response without additional pandemic relief funding. According to Press Secretary Jen Psaki, the country’s testing capacity will fall and supplies of monoclonal antibodies and free services for uninsured...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 11, 2022 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders
The HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) authored a new advisory legal opinion that clears the way for Boston-based DynamiCare Health to use of contingency management – a harm reduction technique that pays people addicted to drugs to remain clean. Under the...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 11, 2022 | Payers
A new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and the Peterson Center revealed that Americans owe at least $195 billion of medical debt. The bulk of the debt (71 percent) is owed by people with over $10,000 in debt. The financial burden falls disproportionately...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 11, 2022 | Providers
A CMS official said the agency is on a “full-court sprint” to establish new safety standards and regulations for nursing homes, with plans to launch minimum staffing requirements within a year. While there’s no set timeline yet for CMS’ plans...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 11, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
The Biden administration extended the travel mask mandate for airplanes, buses, and public transportation through April 18. In the coming weeks, the CDC said it will revise its guidance on when masks should be required on transit, based on COVID-19 data such as case...
by Jordana Choucair | Mar 11, 2022 | Public Health/Prevention
According to a new Lancet study, up to 18.2 million people likely died because of COVID-19 in the pandemic’s first two years, roughly three times more than the official death toll. The study points to a lack of testing and unreliable mortality data in some...
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