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The members-only learning collaborative will offer peer learning and expert training to enhance access to opioid use disorder treatment.

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The White House Challenge to Save Lives from Overdose asks stakeholders to commit to increasing access to opioid overdose reversal medications.

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This legislation would codify 340B Drug Pricing Program providers’ ability to use contract pharmacies to dispense 340B discounted drugs.

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The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission discusses widening its scope to review disproportionate share hospital funding policy in the context of other Medicaid payments.

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This policy brief discusses how HHS has leveraged its authority under Medicaid and Medicare to advance policies aimed at addressing social determinants of health and health-related social needs.

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Utah becomes the 45th state, along with Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands, to extend Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program eligibility for 12 months postpartum.

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Medicare Part A providers and Part B suppliers affected by the Change Healthcare cyberattack may apply for accelerated and advance payments.

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The fiscal year 2024 appropriations package also delays by three months the fiscal year 2025 cut to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital funding, giving lawmakers time after the general election to return to this issue and other year-end spending priorities.

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This “minibus” funding package eliminates Medicaid disproportionate share hospital payment cuts for FY 2024, delays implementation of FY 2025 Medicaid DSH cuts, and does not include harmful site-neutral payment cut policies and burdensome hospital price transparency measures.

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By eliminating this fiscal year’s $8 billion cut to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital funding and delaying the fiscal year 2025 cut, Congress affords policymakers valuable time to find a lasting solution to the decade-long threat to DSH support.

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CDC says Americans who tested positive no longer must isolate for five days under certain conditions; FDA grants emergency use authorization to the first at-home test detecting both the flu and COVID-19.

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Medication therapy management brings pharmacists, health care providers, and patients together to ensure appropriate medication use.

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Following action to avert a partial government shutdown March 1, congressional lawmakers released an appropriations plan for the remainder of the current fiscal year that would eliminate the looming $8 billion cut to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital funding.

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The 340B program continues to work as Congress intended. We urge Congress and the administration to protect the program and ensure all stakeholders comply with the law.

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We appreciate the strong precedent of bipartisan support for stopping the Medicaid DSH cuts and urge Congress to act swiftly, before the March 8 deadline, to preserve this vital safety net support and eliminate the DSH reductions for FYs 2024 and 2025.

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We urge Congress to protect access to care in underserved communities and support the safety net by rejecting site-neutral policies.

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New legislation, introduced by Reps. Lori Trahan (D-Mass.) and David Valadao (R-Calif.), would codify “essential health system” in statute, giving policymakers a powerful tool to better target support to the nation’s safety net and improve health care access and equity and public health.

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Partnerships between essential hospitals and the nation’s only four historically Black medical schools are transforming the face of medicine and culturally sensitive care.

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Congressional negotiators were at odds this week over extending government funding beyond the March 1 and 8 expirations of current temporary funding measures, the latter of which includes a delay to Medicaid DSH cuts.

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The rule aligns 42 CFR Part 2 more closely with HIPAA regulations by changing policies on consent, use and disclosure, and counseling notes.

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The final rule for Section 203 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, changes how the calculation of a hospital’s Medicaid disproportionate share hospital uncompensated care limit accounts for costs and payments related to Medicare and other dually eligible patients.

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The document details payment features of Medicare fee-for-service Hospital Global Budgets under the States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development Model (AHEAD).

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The collaborative will bring together providers, community partners, and other experts to explore challenges facing postpartum populations and solutions to improve postpartum mortality.

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The rule finalizes a 2021 statutory requirement that hospitals, when calculating a Medicaid DSH cap, include only the costs and payments for patients for whom Medicaid is the primary payer or who are uninsured.

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The bipartisan legislation, introduced in the House Feb. 15, would codify measures of a health system's commitment to disadvantaged people and communities and give policymakers a powerful tool to target safety net support.

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Reach out to your House members today and ask them to cosponsor the Reinforcing Essential Health Systems for Communities Act.

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The bipartisan legislation would establish a federal definition of “essential health system” to give Congress a new tool to target support to these foundational members of the nation’s health care safety net.

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The agency proposes to increase oversight of organizations that accredit Medicare facilities, reduce conflicts of interest, and make surveys more consistent.

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The accelerator will provide technical assistance to states implementing health-related social needs services through Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.

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Patients now can give a single consent for all uses and disclosures for substance use disorder treatment, payment, and health care operations.

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A key health committee in the House examined potential solutions to chronic drug shortages, and a Senate health panel heard drug industry testimony on the causes of high drug prices. House Energy and Commerce Chair McMorris Rodgers announces she's not seeking reelection.

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The draft includes proposals regarding manufacturer restrictions on contract pharmacies, patient definition, transparency, and other aspects of the drug discount program. It follows a request for information issued by a bipartisan working group of senators last year.

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The Internal Revenue Service will hold office hours Feb. 6 and Feb. 9, from 1–2 pm ET, to assist with the prefiling registration process for elective payment of clean energy credits.

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Paxlovid will no longer be authorized for emergency use after March 8; V-safe, the CDC's vaccine safety monitoring system, is once again open.

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The FAQ clarify what constitutes full benefits for states extending Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program coverage for 12 months postpartum.

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Bipartisan legislation from a group of senators would remove a requirement that Medicare beneficiaries be seen in person within six months of receiving behavioral health services via telehealth.

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The FAQ include guidance for hospitals, long term care facilities, and critical access hospitals on enforcing and communicating visitation policies.

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HHS and CMS will share training materials, convene hospital and provider associations to discuss best practices and challenges, and establish a team of experts to support hospitals.

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