By Chelsea Richwine & Vaishali Patel – The pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic revealed gaps in the nation’s public health infrastructure that pose challenges to effective communication between health care providers and public health agencies.
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In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
The Inflation Reduction Act, now signed into law, will invest $437B in America’s future which will include $64B in healthcare. The White House breaks this down by the numbers.
By Chris Emper – The heavily anticipated CMS 2023 Proposed Medicare Physician Payment Rule is a whopping 2,066 pages long and includes numerous provisions that will impact physician groups next year.
Last week, during National Health Center Week, HRSA awarded nearly $90 million in American Rescue Plan funding to nearly 1,400 community health centers across the country to advance health equity through better data collection and reporting.
The USDA Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced that USDA is awarding $74 million in grants to improve health care facilities in rural towns across the Nation. These grants will help 143 rural health care organizations expand critical services for 3 million people in 37 states, Guam and Puerto Rico.
In case you missed it, this is recent communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Subscribe to their email lists to keep up to date on all press and news releases.
By Mera Choi, Stephanie Garcia, & Chelsea Richwine – The Cures Act Final Rule includes regulatory requirements to implement secure, standards-based application programming interfaces. To support the acceleration of API adoption in health care, ONC has published a series of perspective reports that focus on key stakeholders and their views on APIs.
By Micky Tripathi & Steven Posnack – As our nation transitions to a digital healthcare system, our stakeholders are discovering new opportunities for using health information technology to advance health care delivery, public health, and research to improve people’s lives.