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CMS approves Medicaid waivers to treat substance use disorders

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week approved Section 1115 waivers allowing Minnesota and Nebraska to implement demonstration projects to increase access and treatment for Medicaid beneficiaries with opioid and other substance use disorders.
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H-ISAC TLP Green Coronavirus Daily Update - November 9 2021

major Headlines, “Good Stuff”, US Snapshots, US Vaccinations, US Variant Proportions, Highlights, as well as key Statistics, US State Variants, Vaccine and Treatment information, US State Mandates and the Back to Normal Index related to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
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Fitch Ratings highlights potential fiscal, credit impact of Medicaid proposals

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Medicaid fiscal accountability proposed rule and recent block grant guidance “could have fiscal and credit repercussions” for states and health care providers, especially nonprofit providers with “higher Medicaid exposure,” according to a recent commentary by Fitch Ratings.
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Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento – Community Navigator

What is it? The Community Navigator patrols (on foot) the .25-mile radius surrounding Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento (SMCS) and builds relationships with the local homeless and transie
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HHS grants waiver to aid health care response to Puerto Rico earthquakes

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar yesterday declared a public health emergency for Puerto Rico.
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CMS announces blanket waivers for providers in Calif. wildfire areas

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today announced blanket waivers from certain Medicare, Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program requirements to help health care providers meet patients’ needs in areas affected by the California wildfires.
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Appellee U.S. Opposition to Emergency Motion to Stay

Defendant respectfully opposes plaintiffs’ emergency motion for stay. Without having moved first in the district court (contra Fed. R. App. P. 8(a)), and less than two weeks before the hospital-price-transparency rule is to take effect on January 1, 2021, plaintiffs ask that this Court “stay the enforcement of the [rule] for six months.” Mot. 13. That extraordinary request should be denied.
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Trinity Health Launches “It Starts Here” COVID-19 Vaccine Campaign

Trinity Health is targeting marketing and communication efforts to encourage COVID-19 vaccine confidence and administer shots to minority populations.
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MedPAC discusses ED visit coding, MA encounter data

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission this week discussed a set of national guidelines for coding hospital emergency department visits in response to the shift in ED coding from lower to higher intensity services.
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Reports show how Michigan hospitals benefit economy, community

Michigan hospitals provided about 223,000 jobs and $2.97 billion in community benefits in 2013, according to