On September 7, 2021, the California legislature passed SB-110. SB-110 would allow the California state Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, to provide contingency management as a covered benefit for treating substance use…
On October 4, 2021, the Governors of Kentucky, New Mexico, and Maine announced they had transitioned from the federal health care marketplace exchange to individual state-based health care marketplace exchanges. By developing state-based health care marketplaces, these states can…
On April 30, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the second part of the 2022 Notice…
Over the past few years, health insurers have increasingly begun adopting policies referred to as “white bagging” and “brown bagging,”…
A group of senators has called on U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Becerra to regulate short-term “junk”…
According to a new survey from Aimed Alliance in partnership with the the HR Research Institute, there is significant confusion…
On January 8, 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approved a Tennessee waiver proposal for a demonstration…
On October 4, 2020, the Honolulu Civil Beat published an article written by Dr. Stephen B. Kemble titled “Hawaii Was…
According to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), three states have helped their residents save…
On July 9, 2020, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser published a column by Dr. Tad Iwanuma that highlights the findings of Aimed…