Compliance
This section focuses on health care compliance and regulations – both national and state – including the ACA. It includes changes in health care law, regulation, and court decisions and their impact on health insurance professionals, employers, and individuals.
Dental care in the United States has been changing, gradually, in the last decade. Like the overall health care system, new treatments, new payment models, and new technologies have been shifting providers away from the surgical management of oral disease to a greater focus on prevention and health promotion. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit the ...
With the “imminent” full approval of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine expected, more businesses will likely issue vaccine mandates to help prevent the Delta variant from sending the country further backward in this pandemic, doctors say. “For businesses and universities that have been thinking about putting vaccine requirements in place in order to create safer spaces for people to work and ...
The Biden administration has delayed enforcement of key parts of a major insurer price transparency rule by six months until July 1, 2022, to give plans more time to comply. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the change in a new guidance released Friday focusing on the final price transparency rule released ...
The move was expected to kick off a round of new vaccination mandates from hospitals, schools and private companies.
The Biden administration is prepared to begin rolling out booster shots for many Americans the week of Sept. 20, the nation's top health officials announced Wednesday, citing data that show the effectiveness of Pfizer and Moderna vaccines against COVID-19 diminishes over time.
With the delta variant surging, a growing number of employers are tiring of merely cajoling workers to get vaccinated against covid-19 and are following President Joe Biden’s protocol for federal workers: Either show proof of vaccination, or mask up and get regular testing if you want to work on-site. The federal government — the nation’s largest ...
The US is in the throes of a fourth wave of the pandemic as the delta variant sweeps across the nation, threatening to crush many parts of our country in ways we cannot imagine. We are only beginning to see the escalating consequences:
President Biden on Thursday called on Congress to act to lower the "outrageously" high price of prescription drugs as lawmakers prepare to press forward on the issue.
The Senate is getting into the nitty-gritty of what exactly will be included in a massive $3.5 trillion infrastructure package that seeks to make major reforms to Medicare. And that means healthcare industry groups are watching very closely.
Oscar Health said it plans to offer its individual and family plans in three new states and 146 new counties for the 2022 plan year, marking its fifth straight year of geographic expansion.