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Recent Guidance Expands Preventive Care for Women

Compliance Now

Under the ACA, non-grandfathered group health plans must provide benefits for “preventive care” on a first-dollar basis. An update to the list of women’s contraceptives found in the FDA Birth Control Guide. By: Megan Diehl, Manager, Compliance Consulting, MZQ Consulting. no co-payments, co-insurance, or deductibles may be applied).

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DOL FAQs Address Coverage for Colonoscopies and Birth Control

Compliance Now

The ACA requires non-grandfathered health plans to pay for “preventive care” on a first-dollar basis, meaning that no copays, coinsurance, or deductibles can be charged for certain services defined as “preventive” under these rules. By: Jessica Waltman, Principal, Forward Health Consulting. Contraceptives.

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The Patient Is Still the Payor – And May Skip Paying for Prevention (Eyes on the ACA & Texas)

Health Populi

would likely skip receiving preventive health care services if the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) coverage for them goes away, a Morning Consult survey found. One of the key benefits embedded in the ACA was “free” without co-pay shares for preventive care. Many health citizens in the U.S.

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Inter-Loper: Loper Bright and Judicial Intrusion on Agency Prerogatives

Bill of Health

Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Department of Health Human Services (HHS). It may very well be that deciding when an alpha amino acid polymer is a “protein” to be regulated by the FDA is not simply a question of statutory interpretation, but also a question of science and policy. Loper Bright overturned Chevron v.

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Out-of-Pocket and Prescription Drug Costs – Connecting Digital Health Dots at CES 2020

Health Populi

For overall healthcare reform, the plurality of Americans prefer improving the current system (that is, building on the Affordable Care Act) versus repealing and replacing the ACA or adopting a Medicare for All plan.

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Por qué se habla de discriminación racial al tomar el nivel de oxígeno

Kaiser Health News

han presionado a la Administración de Drogas y Alimentos (FDA) para que tome medidas que ayuden a eliminar la desviación racial en los oxímetros de pulso. Pero mientras la FDA trabajaba en un borrador de directrices, los médicos y los científicos no saben a qué atenerse.

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Large Employers’ Focus on Prescription Drugs: Costs, Coupons and Communication

Health Populi

Employers’ most daunting challenge and uncertainty when it comes to dealing with pharmacy spending is the specialty drug impact — specifically, new million-dollar therapies getting approved by the FDA. Much now depends on the U.S.