On Wednesday, the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) submitted the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) Section 1115 Demonstration and CalAIM Section 1915(b) Waiver to the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for review and approval. By submitting the applications, DHCS is seeking federal approval to implement key components of the…
Read More »The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week released a report finding that tests received by women through CDC’s National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program declined by 87 percent for breast cancer and 84 percent for cervical cancer during April 2020 as compared with previous five-year averages for that month….
Read More »Today, the Biden-Harris Administration issued the U.S. COVID-19 Global Response and Recovery Framework to establish a set of objectives and delineate activities of U.S. departments in responding to the global pandemic. The U.S. Government will pursue five objectives within the framework related to vaccinations, health systems, acute social needs, economic systems, and international health security….
Read More »On Thursday, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky issued an extension of the nationwide eviction moratorium, preventing the eviction of residential tenants who are unable to make rental payments. Recall, the CDC last fall issued the nationwide eviction moratorium as a way to keep people in their homes and…
Read More »A new report released by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) earlier this week unveiled a record high number of Americans enrolled in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) within the past year. Over 80 million Americans now have health insurance coverage through Medicaid and CHIP, and nearly 10 million…
Read More »The National Association of Counties (NACo) will host a webinar on Tuesday, June 29 at 11:00 am PT on the eligible uses of Fiscal Recovery Funds for public health response activities. The webinar comes as counties determine how to invest their American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to support a…
Read More »For the third time on Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), leaving in place the landmark law’s broad provisions on health care access and coverage originally enacted by Congress in 2010. The case, California v. Texas, was initiated by a coalition of 18 states and two individuals,…
Read More »This week, the Biden-Harris Administration announced it is investing more than $3 billion in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to accelerate the discovery, development, and manufacturing of antiviral medicines to develop the next generation of COVID-19 treatments. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and…
Read More »The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) this week announced the establishment of an $80 million Public Health Informatics & Technology Workforce Development Program (PHIT Workforce Program) to strengthen U.S. public health informatics and data science. The initiative will work closely with colleges…
Read More »On Thursday, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. announced the United States will purchase and donate 500 million Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to 92 low- and lower middle-income countries and the African Union to support the global battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. The vaccines are anticipated to begin shipping in August 2021, and the U.S. will work…
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