Policy Activity
![Prescription Digital Therapeutics as an Emerging Healthcare Frontier](https://aimedalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/qtq80-Quppll-351x185.jpeg)
Recently, the Alliance for Patient Access (AfPA) published a blog titled Prescription Digital Therapeutics Emerge as Health Care’s Newest Frontier. The blog highlights how…
![ACTION for PDTs Releases Two New Resources on Prescription Digital Therapeutics](https://aimedalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/qtq80-gBaoeo-351x185.jpeg)
On October 28, 2021, Aimed Alliance’s multidisciplinary stakeholder group, ACTION for PDTs in collaboration with the ACTION for PDTs’ California Working Group, released two new California-focused resources on…
![Governor Newsom Vetoes SB 110 Denying Contingency Management Coverage But Approves a Pilot Program](https://aimedalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Cali-flag-351x185.png)
On October 8, 2021, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced that he would be vetoing SB 110. SB 110 would have allowed the California state…
![Massachusetts Becomes the First State to Offer Coverage for Prescription Digital Therapeutics](https://aimedalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Mass-Flag-351x185.jpg)
The Massachusetts Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program, known as MassHealth, announced that effective November 1, 2021, MassHealth would begin covering…
![Aimed Alliance Submits Comment on Most Favored Nation Rule Revocation](https://aimedalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/qtq80-LbrcFQ-351x185.jpeg)
On October 12, 2021, Aimed Alliance submitted a comment to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on its proposed rule…
![SB 110 Would Allow the California state Medicaid Program to Cover Contingency Management for Treating Substance Use Disorders](https://aimedalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/qtq80-et4xep-351x185.jpeg)
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…
![Patient Access Collaborative Releases Advocacy Insights on Prior Authorization](https://aimedalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/qtq80-eIOYLR-351x185.jpeg)
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…
![Kentucky, New Mexico, and Maine Now Running State-Based Health Marketplaces](https://aimedalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/health-insurance-getty-1200-1-351x185.jpg)
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…