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CMS Begins Option to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage

Healthcare Law Blog

The Families First Coronavirus Recovery Act, passed on March 18, 2020, includes increased federal funding for state Medicaid agencies to provide care during the national public health emergency. Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive Health Services and Outcomes, 2020 , 137 Obstetrics & Gynecology 225 – 233 (Feb.

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CMS’ Contract Year 2023 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Programs

Healthcare Law Blog

However, for those that haven’t, CMS believes these changes would better equip SNPs to meet their members’ needs, by providing SNPs “a more complete picture of the risk factors that may inhibit enrollees from accessing care and achieving optimal health outcomes and independence.”

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The Most Important Trends For Health in Mary Meeker’s 2019 Internet Report Aren’t About Health Care

Health Populi

In health care, this is an underlying tectonic trend with implications for research, translation to therapies, individual treatment plans, population and public health. 2015 – Musings with Mary Meeker on the Digital/Health Nexus. 2014 – Health Care at an Inflection Point: digital trends via Mary Meeker.