Trump Signs $1.2T Spending Package That Funds HHS, Enacts PBM Reforms, Telehealth And Hospital-At-Home Measures

President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon signed a massive funding package that ends a brief government shutdown and provides full-year funding for the federal government through the end of the year. The House voted earlier in the day to pass the package by a vote of 217-214. As part of negotiations between Senate Democrats and ...

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Senate Talks To Revive ACA Tax Credits Appear To Be Fizzling Out

Talks to revive enhanced Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that expired at the end of last year appeared to be fizzling out Tuesday, with Democrats expressing little optimism about a proposal from Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) that he described as the “best and final” offer his party would make. Lawmakers had been negotiating over a proposal from Moreno that ...

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Kaiser Permanente, Renown Health Launch Northern Nevada Joint Venture

Kaiser Permanente and Renown Health have wrapped the paperwork on a deal forming an insurance and outpatient care joint venture in northern Nevada. The arrangement announced last September (see below) represents an entry into the geographic market for Kaiser, the country’s largest nonprofit health system. It brings Hometown Health—an existing health plan run by Renown ...

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TrumpRx Launch Delayed As HHS Navigates Rx Anti-Kickback Safeguards

The launch of TrumpRx, an online platform enabling consumers to purchase discounted prescription drugs directly from manufacturers, has been delayed. Although it was expected to go live in late January, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced at a cabinet meeting last week that it instead “is going to be happening sometime, probably in the next ...

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New Henderson Hospital Brings Addiction, Medical Care Under One Roof

Nevada’s overdose deaths are climbing even as fatalities fall dramatically across the rest of the country, and a new hospital in Henderson is betting it can help reverse that trend by treating addiction and serious medical conditions under the same roof. Las Vegas Recovery Hospital, a 68-bed, 32,000-square-foot facility on the Dignity Health St. Rose ...

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How Does Dental Health In Nevada Compare To Other States?

Brushing and flossing are not the only factors that can impact your dental health: where you live can have an effect, too. WalletHub found that some areas of the United States have a higher density of dental professionals, and some states provide fluoridated water to nearly all of their residents, while other states fall behind. ...

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