Access & Health Coverage

Congress has headed home for its traditional August recess. That tradition began, by the way, as a sensible concession to Washington, D.C.’s steamy summer climate, long before central air conditioning came to Capitol Hill in 1938.
Stacy Bank, M.D., medical director of University of Utah Health’s Intensive Outpatient Clinic, and Chad Westover, CEO of University of Utah Health Plans, discuss how they’re providing wraparound medical and social care to some of the health system’s most at-risk patients.
Like individuals and families across America, hospitals and health systems are dealing with the difficult challenges of high inflation and ongoing effects of the pandemic.
The House today voted 220-207 to pass the Inflation Reduction Act (H.R. 5376), sending it to President Biden for his signature.
President Biden today directed the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consider actions to expand access to abortion and other reproductive health services through Medicaid.
The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit challenging an Idaho law restricting abortion.
The cost of commercial insurance is increasing at an unsustainable rate — squeezing individuals and families, employers, and public programs. The average family insurance premium has increased 47% over the past 11 years — faster than general inflation and more than any other part of the health care…
North Mississippi Health Services has partnered with the Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association to improve community health and wellness at the Tupelo Farmers’ Depot.
In a letter to Representatives Richard Neal, and Kevin Brady, AHA voices support for the Improving Seniors’ Timely Access to Care Act of 2022 (H.R. 8487).
HHS released a proposed rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age and disability in certain health programs and activities