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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to begin paying for biosimilars through its Part B,Part D and state coverage policies by this summer, according to a question-and-answer document released in April.
The U.S.Department of Health and Human Services released Positive Spin, a comprehensive digital educational tool that uses storytelling to promote HIV treatment.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has launched a $133 million initiative to reduce prescription opioid and heroin-related overdose, death and dependence.
Title II of the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA), known as theDrug Supply Chain Security Act(DSCSA), took effect on January 1, 2015.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded millions in health grants in 2014.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court voted 5-4 to allow a key exemption to the Affordable Care Act’s contraception coverage requirements, meaning closely held, for-profit businesses can assert a religious objection.
A new Drug Enforcement Administration regulation allows pharmacies,hospitals, clinics and other authorized collectors such as long-term care facilities to serve as authorized drop-off sites for unused prescription drugs.
A proposed rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would add to the list of Medicare-reimbursable telehealth activities, as well as pay for telehealth services in rural areas nearer big cities under a geographical expansion.
The Department of Health andHuman Services (HHS) will allow certain hospitals to receive discounts on orphan drugs when they are used for non-orphan conditions, despite a ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that HHS did not have the authority to do so.
A substantial decrease in Medicare spending as a result of improvements made by the Affordable Care Act (ACA)will result in the Medicare Trust Fund lasting until 2030.
A federal appeals court has struck down subsidies provided under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for federally run insurance exchanges.
Under a proposed rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS), healthcare providers will have an extra year to use 2011 edition software in their electronic health record systems under the federal incentive program for health IT.