Employer Advocacy Group Urges Congress To Improve Employee Health Care And Retirement

Individuals are not the only ones making resolutions for 2023. The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC) spelled out its objectives in a recent letter to congressional leaders.

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As PHE Winds Down, Virtual Prescribing Of Controlled Substances Is In Limbo

The coming end of the COVID-19 public health emergency and pandemic-era telehealth flexibilities could rattle an already besieged behavioral health system and force providers to make ethical decisions. The public health emergency, which President Biden will end May 11, allowed clinicians to prescribe controlled substance medications via telehealth without an office visit. The 2008 Ryan ...

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CMS Seeks To Make Quality Measures More ‘Universal’ In Rollout Of New Program

Top Medicare and Medicaid officials want to create a “universal foundation” of quality measures aligned across all programs in a bid to ease reporting burdens and confusion. Officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services called for aligning quality measures across more than 20 agency programs in a letter in The New England Journal of ...

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California Won’t Require COVID Vaccine To Attend Schools

Children in California won’t have to get the coronavirus vaccine to attend schools, state public health officials confirmed Friday, ending one of the last major restrictions of the pandemic in the nation’s most populous state. Gov. Gavin Newsom first announced the policy in 2021, saying it would eventually apply to all of California’s 6.7 million public and ...

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Decisions by CVS and Optum Panicked Thousands of Their Sickest Patients

The fear started when a few patients saw their nurses and dietitians posting job searches on LinkedIn. Word spread to Facebook groups, and patients started calling Coram CVS, a major U.S. supplier of the compounded IV nutrients on which they rely for survival. To their dismay, CVS Health confirmed the rumors on June 1: It ...

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CVS Nearing $10.5 Bln Deal For Primary-Care Provider Oak Street Health

CVS Health Corp (CVS.N) is close to an agreement to buy primary care center operator Oak Street Health Inc (OSH.N) for about $10.5 billion including debt, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. The companies are discussing a price of about $39 a share, the newspaper said. The deal, if it goes through, could be ...

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