Medicaid, Patient Access, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Continuity in Coverage: CMS Extends the Unwinding SEP & Issues Final Rule for Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/3/2024

On March 28, 2024, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced that it is extending the temporary special enrollment period (the Unwinding SEP)...more

Telehealth Policy Lessons Learned in North Carolina During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/27/2023

Introduction - The COVID-19 pandemic catalyzed a dramatic rise in the use of telehealth nationwide to deliver services to individuals enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). The federal...more

OIG Publishes Strategic Plan for Managed Care Oversight on New Featured Webpage

King & Spalding on 9/12/2023

On August 28, 2023, OIG released a new webpage on managed care oversight, which features the HHS-OIG Strategic Plan for Oversight of Managed Care for Medicare and Medicaid. OIG has designated oversight of managed care as a...more

Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - April 2023 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 4/24/2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more

Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - January 2022 #2

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 1/31/2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth servic es. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more

Ramping up the drug pricing debate: Dueling bills and paying for health care infrastructure

Hogan Lovells on 4/26/2021

The U.S. House of Representatives is considering dueling proposals related to drug pricing under Medicaid and Medicare, including the Republican-led H.R. 19, the “Lower Costs, More Cures Act of 2021” and a reintroduced...more

Executive Summary: Tracking Telehealth Changes State-by-State in Response to COVID-19 - October 2020

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 10/22/2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues across the United States, states, payers, and providers are looking for ways to expand access to telehealth services. Telehealth is an essential tool in ensuring patients are able to access...more

CMS Announces New Telehealth Services Covered by Medicare and Provides States with Medicaid and CHIP Telehealth Expansion...

Robinson+Cole Health Law Diagnosis on 10/20/2020

On October 14, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expanded the list of telehealth services covered by Medicare during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. CMS also announced it would be providing...more

HHS finalizes rules to provide patients more control of their health data

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) on 5/13/2020

Compliance Today (May 2020) - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced in a March 9, 2020, news release that it had “finalized two transformative rules that will give patients unprecedented safe,...more

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