Then-acting HHS Secretary Eric Hargan first declared a national opioid emergency on Oct. 26, 2017, and renewed the status in January 2018. HHS Secretary Alex Azar subsequently renewed the emergency designation seven times, most recently…
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Still, the previously unreported effort to identify possible replacements shows the extent to which White House officials were planning for the possibility that Trump’s top two health officials would abruptly leave the administration heading into…
In this edition Open enrollment continues in Massachusetts, Washington, DC, New York, and California Supreme Court declines Democrats’ request to fast-track ACA lawsuit New Jersey awards contracts for the creation of state-run exchange Debate over…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention anticipate more cases of the virus both in the U.S. and globally, Nancy Messonnier, director of CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters Tuesday. Still,…
Intermountain Healthcare committed to fund at least half of a $500 million project that will bolster children-oriented programs and facilities, spurring a $50 million donation, the integrated not-for-profit health system announced Tuesday. Salt Lake City-based…
The virus, which was first reported in Wuhan in late December, has sickened more than 300 people, claimed at least six lives and spread to at least four other nations, according to the World Health…
Trump on Thursday grilled Azar about the administration’s new plan to let states import drugs from Canada, with a focus on how it would affect his reelection prospects in battleground states like Florida, according to…
Hospital giant Kaiser Permanente and insurer Blue Shield of California on Friday pledged $45 million to a new state fund aimed at getting people off the streets. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order last…
Neal and Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) downplay the differences between their approaches, and House leaders are signaling they want to bring a compromise bill to the floor. But they’ll still have to…
The CMS earlier this month rejected a Wyoming Medicaid waiver proposal that aimed to lower air ambulance costs for all residents of the state. Wyoming essentially proposed making air ambulances into a public utility by…