by Jordana Choucair | Oct 7, 2021 | Access & Coverage
A federal judge ordered Texas to pause its restrictive new abortion law in the first successful legal challenge to the ban. According to the judge, “women have been unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives” since the law was...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 6, 2021 | Transition to Value
Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) Director Liz Fowler said the agency is looking to implement more mandatory value-based care payment models, including those focused on total costs. However, CMMI is moving away from having models for every disease,...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 6, 2021 | Payers
Willis Towers Watson reported that health benefit costs are expected to increase by more than 5 percent in both 2021 and 2022. The firm’s survey of 378 U.S. companies employing 5.9 million workers found achieving affordable costs for the organization was a key...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 6, 2021 | Mental Health
Depression and anxiety fell in early 2021 but Americans reported their anxiety and depression symptoms are still higher than they were before the pandemic. According to CDC data, the average anxiety severity score increased 13 percent from late August to December 2020...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 6, 2021 | Health IT
Intermountain Healthcare, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, and SSM Health launched Graphite Health – a member-led company that will build on a common data language to create a standardized, interoperable data platform. The not-for-profit company will host a...
by Jordana Choucair | Oct 6, 2021 | D.C. News
President Joe Biden told congressional Democrats that the $3.5 trillion social spending package will likely need to be trimmed to $2.3 trillion or less. During virtual meetings with small groups of House Democrats, the president said the package needed to be pared...
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