Month: July 2025
The Department of Health and Human Services has rescinded a policy from 1998 that gave undocumented immigrants access to certain federal health benefits, such as Head Start and mental health programs. Issued by President Bill Clinton, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 was passed into law and deemed a major welfare ...
Staying awake to watch “just one more episode” is a classic excuse for delaying bedtime. And with popular shows like Peacock’s “Love Island” airing almost every night as the drama unfolds live, there’s more pressure to finish the latest episode and to engage in conversation with others the next day. In addition to making us sleepier ...
Delays in getting insurance approvals are a familiar headache for patients and doctors. But getting enough consensus to fix the process in Nevada was difficult.
Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is warning Nevadans that President Donald Trump’s spending and tax cut bill will ripple through every aspect of the state’s health care system, going far beyond those who directly rely on Medicaid. Hospitals are already assessing whether they may need to cut staff or reduce services, said Cortez Masto during ...
A key proposal from Gov. Joe Lombardo to streamline Nevada’s Health and Human services programs launched Tuesday, state officials announced. The Nevada Health Authority launched this week. Lombardo, a first-term Republican governor, first proposed to split the state’s Department of Health and Human Services in two during his State of the State address in January. ...
Members of the House have brought back efforts to pass the Treat and Reduce Obesity Act bill. The bill would have a direct effect only on Medicare Part D prescription drug plans: It would let the plans cover weight-loss drugs for obese people and for overweight people with weight-related health problems. The drug coverage provision does ...
The Trump administration appears to be expanding RSV vaccinations to some adults starting at age 50, down from 60, following the advice of a recently fired panel of government vaccine advisers. The decision appears on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage but as of Wednesday wasn’t on the agency’s official adult immunization schedule. RSV, ...
Congress has made permanent a pandemic-era telehealth provision for millions of Americans with high deductible health plans. In its massive tax package signed into law on July 4, Congress included a last minute provision to allow employer-sponsored health plans to offer covered telehealth services before employees meet their deductibles. In 2023, 41.7% of commercially-insured Americans had high deductible health ...
On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc. By a vote of 6-3, the Court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) long-standing requirement that insurers and health plans cover certain recommended preventive services without cost sharing. The United States (US) Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force), the majority held, ...
Many of those states fear that the additional red tape — especially requirements that would end automatic reenrollment — would have an outsize impact on their policyholders.