Federal Judge’s Ruling Threatens Preventive Care Coverage in ACA
A federal judge in Texas agreed on Wednesday with plaintiffs — a handful of employers in the state — that requiring insurers to cover the costs of medications for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) infringed on their religious rights, effectively scrapping a central tenet of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Under the ACA, most health plans […]
Companies Could Face Hurdles Covering Abortion Travel Costs
After the U.S. Supreme Court revoked the federal right to an abortion that’s been in place for half a century, companies like Amazon, Disney, Apple and JP Morgan pledged to cover travel costs for employees who live in states where the procedure is now illegal so they can terminate pregnancies. But the companies gave scant […]
New York Doc Tries to Take Down No Surprises Act
Healthcare organizations have already sued the federal government over its interpretation of the No Surprises Act, but one Long Island physician has declared the new law designed to protect patients from surprise billing flat-out unconstitutional. Acute care surgeon Daniel Haller, MD, of Rockville Centre, New York, filed a lawsuit in December 2021 against HHS, among […]
Federal research funding has positive ‘ripple effects’
Federal funding for biomedical research has a “ripple effect” of stimulating new studies even beyond the original purposes of a grant and may provide unexpected benefits, a new study suggests. Researchers used a unique dataset to get a never-before-seen view of how science funding is spent and the results it produces. The findings, published today […]
How Can the U.S. Avoid Another COVID-19 Stockpile Disaster?
WASHINGTON — What can be done to prevent poor federal responses to disasters, such as the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) that was woefully under-stocked when COVID-19 hit? That’s the question addressed in a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Responding to public health emergencies has largely been under the […]
Texas Medical Association Sues Feds Over Surprise Billing
The Texas Medical Association (TMA) is challenging a federal law designed to shield patients from surprise medical bills, arguing in a new lawsuit that regulators have stacked the deck against healthcare providers in their implementation of the No Surprises Act. Essentially, TMA takes issue with the arbitration process for settling out-of-network bills, arguing that the […]
School Mask, Vaccine Mandates Take Center Stage at Senate Hearing
Senators sparred over school mask mandates and whether the federal government can and should mandate COVID vaccines for eligible kids during a Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions hearing on Thursday. While new CDC data showed that schools without mask mandates were 3.5 times more likely to have a COVID-19 outbreak, some governors and […]
Federal Workers Must Get Vaccine
Federal Workers Must Get Vaccine | HuffPost Part of HuffPost News. ©2021 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. BREAKING NEWS Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Federal Workers Must Get Vaccine NOW PLAYING The White House has announced that all […]