CMS Launches Healthy Adult Opportunity Demonstration Initiative
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has launched the Healthy Adult Opportunity (HAO) optional demonstration initiative to give states tools to design innovative health coverage programs for adult beneficiaries, while holding states accountable for results and maintaining strong protections for the most at-risk populations.
Medicare Will Now Cover Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a decision to cover acupuncture for Medicare patients with chronic low back pain.
Finalized Health Care Price Transparency Rule Unveiled
New rule requires hospitals to share previously obscured price information, including discounts for cash-paying patients and rates negotiated with insurers.
FDA Initiates Coronavirus Medical Countermeasures
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking critical actions to advance development of novel coronavirus medical countermeasures.
NIAID Awards $30 Million to Develop Tuberculosis Vaccine
The awards establish and provide up to seven years of support for three Immune Mechanisms of Protection Against Mycobacterium Tuberculosis (IMPAc-TB) Centers to elucidate the immune responses needed to protect against Mtb infection.
CMS Enacts Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP Fraud-Fighting Rules
A final rule that went into effect Nov. 4 strengthens the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ ability to stop fraud before it happens.
CMS Finalizes Rule for Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized a rule to update and modernize the Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) that reflects updates based upon best practices in caring for frail and elderly individuals.
FDA Issues Final Guidance on Biosimilar Interchangeability
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released guidelines on the studies companies need to conduct to show their biosimilar is interchangeable with a biologic.
CMS Finalizes Rule for Cuts to Medicaid DSH Payments
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published a final rule for calculating state Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) cuts in the amount of $4 billion in 2020 and $8 billion for each subsequent year through 2025.
$1 Billion Grant Awarded to Fight Addiction and Chronic Pain
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded $945 million to battle addiction and chronic pain.
