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09.28.22

CMS Reexamines Its Interpretation of the COVID-19 Continuous Enrollment Requirement

On September 23, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reopened the comment period for a November 2020 interim final rule titled “Additional Policy and Regulatory Revisions in Response to the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.”


08.09.22

CMS Sets Parameters for Optional Medicaid Health Home Benefit for Medically Complex Children

On August 1, CMS released a State Medicaid Director letter laying out a new option for states to cover “health home” services for Medicaid-eligible children and youth with medically complex conditions.


08.04.22

Biden Administration Proposes Substantial Revisions to Health Care Nondiscrimination Rules

On July 25, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a proposed rule interpreting Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which prohibits any health program or activity that receives federal financial assistance from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national ...


02.22.22

CMS Solicits Input on Potential Medicaid and CHIP Reforms Around Eligibility, Enrollment and Access

On February 17, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a Request for Information regarding the federal standards that govern access to care in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program.


02.03.22

What’s Ahead for Federal Health Policy in 2022

As the Biden administration begins its second year in office, the administration remains focused on its core health policy agenda—advancing coverage, access and equity.


12.08.21

Build Back Better: All Eyes on the Senate

On November 19, the House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better Act (BBB) (H.R. 5376) by a vote of 220–213.


10.26.21

Incentives for COVID-19 Vaccination: Regulatory Considerations and Potential Federal Funding

As the COVID-19 pandemic approaches the two-year mark, the United States leads the world in new COVID-19 cases and deaths.


07.15.21

Restoring Women’s Access to Medicaid Family Planning Services

Family planning services are critical to ensuring gender and racial equity and reproductive justice, and include but are not limited to contraception, pregnancy testing and fertility services.


04.26.21

HHS Renews COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Through July 19, 2021; Additional Renewals Are Expected

On April 15, 2021, the HHS announced that the PHE declaration for COVID‑19 will be renewed for another 90 days, beginning on April 21 (the date the PHE was previously scheduled to expire) and extending through July 19, 2021.


03.23.21

PREP Act Declaration Authorizes COVID-19 Vaccine Administration by Most Health Care Practitioners

On March 11, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services released its latest declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act.