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…
Recently, Emma Watson, MPH with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network spoke to the Patient Access Collaborative (PAC) on the impact prior authorization policies have on cancer patients. Prior authorization…
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 September 30, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Labor (DOL), the Department of Treasury,…
On August 31, 2021, the Alliance for Mental Health Care Access (“AMHCA”) conducted its first roundtable meeting. AMHCA is a…
On September 13, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) Interim Final Rule on the No Surprises Act went into effect. Surprise medical…
A recent Modern Healthcare article by Dr. Rimal Bera addresses how health insurance practices could be fueling the mental health…
On September 9, 2021, the North Carolina General Assembly passed Senate Bill 257. This bill provides consumer protections against copay accumulator programs. Recently increasing in…
A recent study in Health Affairs found that payers, pharmaceutical manufactures, health care providers, and patients incur approximately $93.3…
In Fall 2020, the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority’s Executive Board established a Social Justice and Health Disparities Working Group…