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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration introduced its Biosimilar Action Plan to help speed up approvals to enhance access to lower-cost biologics.
A final rule issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services allows insurers to once again sell short-term health insurance for up to 12 months, as well as makes the plans renewable for up to three years.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services adopted an interim final rule to restore $10.4 billion in funding to insurers to help them provide coverage to sick and
costly enrollees.
HIV/AIDS researcher Robert Redfield, MD, has been named the next head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Health and Human Services Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters for 2019 aims to increase state flexibility, improve affordability, strengthen program integrity, empower consumers, promote stability and reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens imposed by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The finalized 2019 Medicare Advantage plan rates will rise an average of 3.4 percent, with other changes being implemented as well.
New guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services allows work requirements to be used as a basis for eligibility for certain Medicaid beneficiaries.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is providing new policy guidance to help states design demonstration projects that promote the objectives of the Medicaid program and are consistent with federal statutory requirements.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has formed a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) to restore federal enforcement of U.S. laws that protect the fundamental and unalienable rights of conscience and religious freedom.
Alex Michael Azar II was confirmed the 24th Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation has launched a new voluntary bundled payment model called Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Advanced.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has proposed a 1.84 percent increase in 2019 Medicare payments to health insurers that manage Medicare Advantage insurance plans for more than 20 million elderly and disabled people.