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The Health Resources and Services Administration seeks input through Oct. 9 on how best to conceptualize and measure access to health care in rural communities as the Department of Health and Human Services’ Rural Health Task Force considers policy changes to meet their needs.
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response will provide $23 million for Merck to produce additional doses of its investigational Ebola vaccine over the next year as part of the international response to the outbreak in the Democratic…
The number of U.S. residents misusing pain relievers fell by 11% in 2018, to about 9.9 million, according to the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The National Institutes of Health’s All of Us Research Program today awarded a health technology company $4.6 million in initial funding to provide genetic counseling to program participants who wish to receive genomic data.
Alaska Gov. Michael Dunleavy Monday vetoed state appropriations that would have restored $50 million in Medicaid funding cuts for fiscal year 2020.
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved a new antibiotic to treat adults with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.
The number of U.S. hospitals with an antibiotic stewardship program that meets all core elements recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention almost doubled between 2014 and 2017 to 3,816, according to a new report by the CDC.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services plans to update the overall hospital quality star ratings at Hospital Compare in early 2020, but wait until 2021 to update the star ratings methodology, the agency announced today.
The departments of Health and Human Services and the Treasury Friday approved a Section 1332 waiver for Montana to implement a five-year reinsurance program for its individual health insurance market beginning in 2020.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Friday said it will not provide enhanced federal funding for Utah to provide Medicaid coverage to adults under age 65 with incomes up to 100% of the federal poverty level, saying it will continue its recent policy to only approve enhanced…