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Fixing the Family Glitch and Other Priorities: The Next Wave of Federal Administrative Action to Enhance the Affordable Care Act

Center for Health Insurance Reform

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.

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How we can avoid the 'telehealth cliff'

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. Thus, she said, it's up to Congress to address those statutes, as they temporarily did at the start of the pandemic.

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Psychedelic Policy on the Federal Level: Key Takeaways from a Petrie-Flom Center Panel

Bill of Health

“There’s no low-hanging fruit when it comes to federal psychedelic policy,” he added. Even though he said he views increased funding for psychedelic research by the National Institutes of Health as “exciting,” in the long term, Haskell-Hoehl favors federal policy modeled after state legalization statutes, such as Oregon’s.

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One expert travels the country to see how telehealth is holding up

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

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. In the past year, we have rightfully moved away from that.

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Interview: John Jessop, Sr. Director, HIPAA Security & Regulatory Compliance, PPFA

HIPAA Journal

My office is responsible for keeping our affiliates informed regarding regulatory changes at both the Federal and State-levels. I also participate in our Data Governance Committee and support our Enterprise Risk Management Committee. When I worked as a consultant, I provided organizations with Privacy Policies and Security Manuals.

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Six Opportunities to Use the Law to Support Harm Reduction

Bill of Health

Far too often, the public health imperative of harm reduction is blocked by federal policy, state laws, and other structural barriers anchored in the “war on drugs” that reduce the effectiveness of harm reduction efforts. 152.092, repealed by SF 2909) or, at the least, amend them to exclude testing strips (e.g.,

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Americans Grew Digital Health-Data Muscles in the Pandemic – New Insights from the Pew Charitable Trusts

Health Populi

Nearly one-half of consumers said the pandemic compelled them to support provider sharing of data, 4 in 10 people embraced downloading data to apps, and one-third supported government standards to improve patient matching.

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