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Center for Health Insurance Reform
MAY 23, 2022
CHIR’s Rachel Schwab looks at several policy actions that can reduce barriers to medication abortion. Continue reading → The post State and Federal Policies to Increase Access to Medication Abortion appeared first on Center on Health Insurance Reforms.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
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Bill of Health
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
By Nicole Huberfeld Once again, health law has become a vehicle for constitutional change , with courts hollowing federal and state public health authority while also generating new challenges. The Court did so by building on decisions like National Federation of Independent Business v.
Center for Health Insurance Reform
JANUARY 20, 2022
The federal government has taken a series of actions to strengthen the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicaid, and the Biden administration has announced its intent to do more in this arena.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
MARCH 9, 2021
Although the future of telehealth remains uncertain from a federal policy perspective, patients have largely expressed satisfaction with the modality – which suggests that providers may benefit from offering it as a service in the long term.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 2, 2021
It's become common knowledge, at this point, that the flexibilities enabled by the federal government at the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency prompted an atmospheric jump in telehealth use.
Bill of Health
APRIL 26, 2022
To navigate the myriad interests and stakes involved in creating federal psychedelic policy, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School convened a virtual panel discussion with three leading psychedelic policy advocates.
Healthcare IT Today
MARCH 15, 2023
Clinical Director, the Project Director bears primary responsibility for all essential aspects of the project, contract or grant being conducted, including a projects technical or programmatic requirements, compliance with applicable policies and regulations, and management of staff and resources.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
New Hampshire joins several other states in enacting telehealth legislation in the absence of federal policy. New Hampshire lawmakers held a hearing this week on a bill that would roll back provisions safeguarding telehealth coverage in the state.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Further into the next year, the potential permanence of policy changes we've seen over the last year to make telehealth more accessible and affordable will be a significant factor in driving or deflating longer term adoption.
Bill of Health
JANUARY 10, 2022
This is because the questioning , directly and by implication, calls into doubt what past Courts have identified the framework of federalism — a nickname for the Constitution’s balancing of a strong federal government against the rights of individual states. By Jennifer Bard.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
A report released Tuesday by Foley & Lardner LLP found that the COVID-19 pandemic compelled state and federal policymakers to remove restrictions on and expand reimbursement for telehealth and virtual care at unprecedented rates.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
The American Telehealth Association is working with Congress and several federal agencies to shape the fate of policies and payments for telehealth services that experienced a rapid uptake during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health Populi
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Two-thirds of these folks were concerned about potential future changes to their health insurance coverage with changes in federal policies — that is, worries about national health care reform.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
How to navigate a new policy landscape. Telehealth has been around for a long time, but only recently has it gained the critical mass that most have long expected.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 4, 2022
But managing the shift toward value-based care goals has created a pinch that is difficult to manage for organizations that also are adapting to evolving state and federal policy environments and being asked to do more and more administratively. Telemedicine is on an all-time high.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JULY 18, 2022
In addition, as a federally designated Telehealth Resource Center, UVA Health also worked to provide expanded technical assistance to providers and health systems across the nine-state Mid-Atlantic Region.
Bill of Health
SEPTEMBER 29, 2022
But to focus on these failures risks forgetting the collective framing and collective policy response that dominated the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic. A collective policy response complemented this rhetorical and ideological framing. By Justin Feldman.
Hall Render
MAY 26, 2022
The Supreme Court noted that the prejudice requirement is not a feature of federal waiver law generally, outside of the arbitration context. Those circuits that have adopted the prejudice requirement for finding a waiver of the right to arbitration have done so because of the “federal policy favoring arbitration.” The Supreme Court also clarified this often cited federal policy. On May 23, 2022, the U.S.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
AUGUST 24, 2020
Martel pointed to the temporary federal policy changes around telehealth as an instrumental part of CMH's ability to scale up the program. What the future holds at CMH will depend largely on how many of the temporary changes to telehealth policy the U.S.
Hall Render
MARCH 1, 2023
With the expiration of the COVID-19 single IRB exception determination (the “COVID-19 Exception Determination”), research institutions and IRBs engaging in cooperative research studies should examine their current policies and procedures for situations where they must rely on a single IRB for such research.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JUNE 19, 2020
" As noted by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension earlier this week , there have been 31 federal policy changes enacted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to expand access to telehealth.
Health Populi
AUGUST 5, 2021
” The Pew asserts that this survey, “can inform federal policies to expand use of electronic health records, protect patient privacy.”
HIPAA Journal
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
My office is responsible for keeping our affiliates informed regarding regulatory changes at both the Federal and State-levels. The foremost challenge is HIPAA itself, and the lack of Federal guidance related to data privacy and security.
Kaiser Permanente
MARCH 9, 2022
In February, Pam Schwartz, executive director of Community Health at Kaiser Permanente, joined leaders from the health care, business, and policy fields to discuss the growing Food is Medicine movement. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. .
C&M Health Law
JANUARY 18, 2023
In guidance addressed to state Medicaid directors, CMS clarifies its expectations for the use of “in lieu of” services and settings and provides a policy framework for states in order to qualify for a Section 1115 waiver.
Redox
DECEMBER 21, 2022
TEFCA can effectively consolidate technical operations and future policy iterations under a single roof. At the close of last year, I called 2021 “ another weird one” but it seems that “weird” may be the new normal as 2022 was just as weird, albeit for very different reasons.
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 26, 2019
Survey details for this 21st annual encyclopedia on employer-sponsored health care are published in Health Affairs October 2019 issue in a paper titled, Health Benefits in 2019: Premiums Inch Higher, Employers Respond to Federal Policy. politics both at the Federal and State levels.
Healthcare IT News - Telehealth
JANUARY 3, 2022
And despite revised regulations from the agency that enable abortion via telehealth nationwide, legal experts told local outlets that state laws overrule the new policy. "Mail is regulated by the federal government," said lawyer David Coale to ABC affiliate KVUE.
Pharmacy Law Blog
APRIL 20, 2018
On February 26, 2018, a New York federal judge dismissed a former NFL star’s suit demanding decriminalization of medical marijuana. The suit brought by Super Bowl winner and now weed entrepreneur Marvin Washington and others, seeks to challenge aspects of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) through the court when remedies are available through federal agencies, like the U.S. By George F. Indest III, J.D., M.P.A., Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law.
Hall Render
MARCH 3, 2023
Clair Health partners with Duquesne University College of Osteopathic Medicine UPMC sees lower operating income in 2022 as economic headwinds persist UPMC settles lawsuit with federal government for $8.5
Hall Render
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
NATIONAL Addressing Staff Burnout In Healthcare Design Amazon completes $3.9B
Hall Render
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Congress continues funding for federal programs through Dec. Colorado Gives Teeth to Federal Transparency Enforcement Efforts. Federal judges appear ready to end court oversight of Mississippi mental health services. ‘A Audit of Tennessee Department of Health finds issues in monitoring of state, federal grants. Round Rock behavioral health unit gets $1M in federal funds. West Virginia hospital to reopen following $2M in federal funding. NATIONAL.
Drug & Device Law
JANUARY 30, 2023
341 (2001), with the rejection of the so-called “purposes and objectives” prong of implied preemption by the most conservative justices (at least in terms of federalism) on the Court. Today’s post is a little different in its format from what our readers are used to.
Drug & Device Law
JUNE 28, 2022
A State may not evade the pre-emptive force of federal law by resorting to. . . See Lars Noah, “State Affronts to Federal Primacy in the Licensure of Pharmaceutical Products,” 2016 Mich. The state could not interpose its “no,” where the FDA, exercising federal power, had said “yes.”
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