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HARRISBURG, PA — Governor Tom Wolf announced that the Department of Human Services (DHS) has directed the state’s Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) to let Medicaid recipients obtain early refills …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed methods to calculate and impose civil money penalties (CMPs) when a group health plan (GHP) or a …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule and the Advance Notice Part II to further advance the agency’s efforts to …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) released the following statement on the new flexibilities granted to states through the Healthy Adult Opportunity policy from the Centers for Medicare …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the Exchange Program Integrity Final Rule that implements policies aimed at protecting taxpayer dollars by ensuring that Exchange enrollees are …
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ALLENTOWN, PA — Department of Human Services (DHS) Secretary Teresa Miller today joined U.S. Senator Bob Casey, Pennsylvanians covered through Medicaid expansion and the individual market, and health care advocates …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — As directed by President Trump’s Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Centers for …
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The traditional notion of retirement — a switch from full-time work to full-time leisure — is becoming a thing of the past for millions of Americans. In fact, according to …
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HARRISBURG, PA — Governor Tom Wolf and U.S. Senator Bob Casey were joined by health care advocacy group Protect Our Care in rallying against the Trump-Republican lawsuit to overturn the …
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NEW CASTLE, PA — Auditor General Eugene DePasquale recently visited The Hometown Pharmacy in New Castle to release his new special report on how manufacturers’ rebates artificially inflate the prices …
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