Government & Policy
This year, 31 plans earned 5 stars, compared to 57 in 2023 and 74 in 2022.
The agency seeks to draw on outside expertise to "ensure we appropriately apply our regulatory authority in a way that protects patient health while continuing to support innovation," says the director of its Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
Numerous telehealth flexibilities allowed under the pandemic will need to be decided on a more permanent basis, ATA says.
The software services provider to nonprofits announced it has agreed to pay 49 states and the District of Columbia this month to resolve investigations into a 2020 cyber hack and into misleading data breach statements made to patients and consumers.
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The American Hospital Association says new regs from the HHS Office for Civil Rights clash with HIPAA, contradict interoperability efforts and are "flawed as a matter of law and harmful as a matter of policy."
Such an approach, the group said, would allow oversight organizations to tailor their regulations to the particular risks linked to AI.
The goal is to improve health outcomes by enabling pathways for cannabis education with a focus on compassion and social justice.
More than 7 million have lost Medicaid coverage, with states taking widely different approaches to the redetermination process, says John Barkett.
The DEA's two days of curated listening sessions showcased ideas for how a special registration eliminating in-person evaluation requirements for medically necessary controlled substances might work, but the agency indicated a need for more specifics.
